The Spectator, Том 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon yours ? This indeed is not to be aimed at by one who has a genius no higher than to think of being a very good ...
... matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon yours ? This indeed is not to be aimed at by one who has a genius no higher than to think of being a very good ...
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... matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in contemplations on the world of life , by which I mean all those animals with which every ...
... matter , with the several relations which those bodies bear to one another ; there is still , methinks , something more wonderful and surprising in contemplations on the world of life , by which I mean all those animals with which every ...
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... matter af- fording proper necessaries and conveniences for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it . The author * of the Plurality of Worlds draws a very good argument from this consideration for the peopling of every planet ; as ...
... matter af- fording proper necessaries and conveniences for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it . The author * of the Plurality of Worlds draws a very good argument from this consideration for the peopling of every planet ; as ...
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... matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There are ...
... matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There are ...
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... matter , at least what falls within our knowledge , that does not swarm with life . Nor is his goodness less seen in the diversity than in the multitude of living creatures . Had he only made one species of animals , none of the rest ...
... matter , at least what falls within our knowledge , that does not swarm with life . Nor is his goodness less seen in the diversity than in the multitude of living creatures . Had he only made one species of animals , none of the rest ...
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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.
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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.