The Spectator, Том 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... tion , as you tell me . You say you are afraid only of me , for I shall laugh at your spouse's airs . I beg of you not to fear it , for I am too nice a dis- cerner to laugh at any , but whom most other peo- ple think fine fellows ; so ...
... tion , as you tell me . You say you are afraid only of me , for I shall laugh at your spouse's airs . I beg of you not to fear it , for I am too nice a dis- cerner to laugh at any , but whom most other peo- ple think fine fellows ; so ...
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... tion not but you will receive many recommenda- tions from the public of such as will appear candi- dates for that post . ' Since I am talking of death , and have men- tioned an epitaph , I must tell you , sir , that I have made ...
... tion not but you will receive many recommenda- tions from the public of such as will appear candi- dates for that post . ' Since I am talking of death , and have men- tioned an epitaph , I must tell you , sir , that I have made ...
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... tion , it seems almost of a different nature . If after this we look into the several inward perfec- tions of cunning and sagacity , or what we gene- rally call instinct , we find them rising after the same manner imperceptibly one ...
... tion , it seems almost of a different nature . If after this we look into the several inward perfec- tions of cunning and sagacity , or what we gene- rally call instinct , we find them rising after the same manner imperceptibly one ...
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... tion of believing nothing I hear ; and I contemn the man given to narrations under the appellation of " a matter - of - fact man : " and , according to me , a matter - of - fact man is one whose life and conver- sation is spent in the ...
... tion of believing nothing I hear ; and I contemn the man given to narrations under the appellation of " a matter - of - fact man : " and , according to me , a matter - of - fact man is one whose life and conver- sation is spent in the ...
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... tion , the true posture of which in a coffee - house I take to consist in leaning over a table with the edge of it pressing hard upon your stomach : for the more pain the narration is received with , the more gracious is your bending ...
... tion , the true posture of which in a coffee - house I take to consist in leaning over a table with the edge of it pressing hard upon your stomach : for the more pain the narration is received with , the more gracious is your bending ...
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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.