The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... short , the middle condition is most eligible to the man who would improve himself in virtue ; as I have before shown , it is the most advantageous for the gaining of knowledge . It was upon this con sideration that Agur founded his ...
... short , the middle condition is most eligible to the man who would improve himself in virtue ; as I have before shown , it is the most advantageous for the gaining of knowledge . It was upon this con sideration that Agur founded his ...
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... short , though he regulates him- self in all his proceedings by justice and equity , he finds a thousand occasions for all the good - natured offices of generosity and compassion . A man is unfit for such a place of trust , who is of a ...
... short , though he regulates him- self in all his proceedings by justice and equity , he finds a thousand occasions for all the good - natured offices of generosity and compassion . A man is unfit for such a place of trust , who is of a ...
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... SHORT . ' P. S. If you approve of my style , I am likely enough to become your correspondent . I desire your opinion of it . I design it for that way of writ- ing called by the judicious " the familiar . ' T. No. 474. WEDNESDAY , SEPT ...
... SHORT . ' P. S. If you approve of my style , I am likely enough to become your correspondent . I desire your opinion of it . I design it for that way of writ- ing called by the judicious " the familiar . ' T. No. 474. WEDNESDAY , SEPT ...
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... short , had he not been pre- vented , such a discovery would have come out as would have ruined the next design of their coming to town , viz . buying wedding - clothes . Our names -though he never heard of us before — and we ...
... short , had he not been pre- vented , such a discovery would have come out as would have ruined the next design of their coming to town , viz . buying wedding - clothes . Our names -though he never heard of us before — and we ...
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... short , Puzzle is an atheist as much as his parts will give him leave . He has got about half a dozen common - place topics , into which he never fails to turn the conversation , whatever was the occasion of it . Though the matter in ...
... short , Puzzle is an atheist as much as his parts will give him leave . He has got about half a dozen common - place topics , into which he never fails to turn the conversation , whatever was the occasion of it . Though the matter in ...
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Page 22 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Page 378 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 378 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Page 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have, than to be without; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the supreme being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Page 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.