The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].1857 |
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... mind engages multitudes of people , not only in impertinent terrors , but in supernumerary duties of life ; and arises from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the soul of man . The horror with which we entertain the thoughts ...
... mind engages multitudes of people , not only in impertinent terrors , but in supernumerary duties of life ; and arises from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the soul of man . The horror with which we entertain the thoughts ...
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... mind , from generous and humane resentments . It is like that grief which we have for the decease of our friends . It is no di- minution , but a recommendation of human nature , that , in such incidents , passion gets the better of ...
... mind , from generous and humane resentments . It is like that grief which we have for the decease of our friends . It is no di- minution , but a recommendation of human nature , that , in such incidents , passion gets the better of ...
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... mind , and capacity for business , are in a great measure the effects of a well - tempered constitution , a man cannot be at too much pains to cultivate and pre- serve it . But this care , which we are prompted to , not only by common ...
... mind , and capacity for business , are in a great measure the effects of a well - tempered constitution , a man cannot be at too much pains to cultivate and pre- serve it . But this care , which we are prompted to , not only by common ...
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... mind to go to sleep . much of my character , ' is all that you said of her ; but then the trifler has something in her so unde- signing and harmless , that her guilt in one kind disappears by the comparison of her innocence in another ...
... mind to go to sleep . much of my character , ' is all that you said of her ; but then the trifler has something in her so unde- signing and harmless , that her guilt in one kind disappears by the comparison of her innocence in another ...
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... mind which so gene- rally discolours the behaviour of most people we meet with . them , but lose their force in proportion to our en- deavour to make them such . When our consciousness turns upon the main de- sign of life , and our ...
... mind which so gene- rally discolours the behaviour of most people we meet with . them , but lose their force in proportion to our en- deavour to make them such . When our consciousness turns upon the main de- sign of life , and our ...
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acquaintance action Addison admiration agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment Eustace Budgell eyes fair sex father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent John Byrom John Hughes kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means ment mind mistress nature nerally never obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason received Sappho sense Sir Roger Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit Steele tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turally turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whigs whole woman women words writing young
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Էջ 177 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Էջ 199 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Էջ 177 - ... on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Էջ 177 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Էջ 1 - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences.
Էջ 199 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Էջ 177 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean...
Էջ 125 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Էջ 29 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another : the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind.
Էջ 119 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.