The Spectator, Том 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... concerning the future state of his soul will seem so far from being the effect of want of thought , that it was scarce reasonable he should think otherwise not to mention that here is a plain confession included of his belief in its im ...
... concerning the future state of his soul will seem so far from being the effect of want of thought , that it was scarce reasonable he should think otherwise not to mention that here is a plain confession included of his belief in its im ...
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... concerning the internals of the head from the outward form of the same . His hats for men of the faculties of law and physic do but just turn up , to give a little life to their sagacity ; his military hats glare full in the face ; and ...
... concerning the internals of the head from the outward form of the same . His hats for men of the faculties of law and physic do but just turn up , to give a little life to their sagacity ; his military hats glare full in the face ; and ...
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... concerning the dignity of our nature may at first sight appear like some difficult ques- tions in natural philosophy , in which the argu- ments on both sides seem to be of equal strength . But , as I began with considering this point as ...
... concerning the dignity of our nature may at first sight appear like some difficult ques- tions in natural philosophy , in which the argu- ments on both sides seem to be of equal strength . But , as I began with considering this point as ...
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... concerning old age . Every one who is acquainted with his writings will remember that the elder Cato is introduced in that discourse as the speaker , and Scipio and Lelius as his auditors , This venerable person is represented looking ...
... concerning old age . Every one who is acquainted with his writings will remember that the elder Cato is introduced in that discourse as the speaker , and Scipio and Lelius as his auditors , This venerable person is represented looking ...
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... concerning an unconquerable aversion which some stomachs have against a joint of meat when it is whole , and the eager inclination they have for it when , by its being cut up , the shape which had affected them is altered . From hence ...
... concerning an unconquerable aversion which some stomachs have against a joint of meat when it is whole , and the eager inclination they have for it when , by its being cut up , the shape which had affected them is altered . From hence ...
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Страница 139 - 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?
Страница 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Страница 254 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Страница 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Страница 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Страница 139 - 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...
Страница 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Страница 223 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind.
Страница 88 - ... 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 own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Страница 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.