The Spectator, Հատոր 8Tonson, 1717 |
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Արդյունքներ 74–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... fays Plato , fo delightful , as the hearing or the fpeaking of Truth . For this Reason there is no Converfation fo agreeable as that of the Man of Integrity , who hears without any Intention to betray , and fpeaks without any Inten ...
... fays Plato , fo delightful , as the hearing or the fpeaking of Truth . For this Reason there is no Converfation fo agreeable as that of the Man of Integrity , who hears without any Intention to betray , and fpeaks without any Inten ...
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... fay ) of Expreffions of Kindness and Refpect , that if a Man that lived an Age or two ago fhould return into the World again , he would really want a Dictionary to help him to un- derftand his own Language , and to know the true ...
... fay ) of Expreffions of Kindness and Refpect , that if a Man that lived an Age or two ago fhould return into the World again , he would really want a Dictionary to help him to un- derftand his own Language , and to know the true ...
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... fays of the Magpie , who you know was a great Fortune teller among the Ancients ) chatter Fu- turity . I have hitherto chofen to receive Questions and return Answers in Writing , that I might avoid the Tediousness and Trouble of Debates ...
... fays of the Magpie , who you know was a great Fortune teller among the Ancients ) chatter Fu- turity . I have hitherto chofen to receive Questions and return Answers in Writing , that I might avoid the Tediousness and Trouble of Debates ...
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... fay any thing of Difparagement , and the Reader's Ears to hear any thing of Praife from him . Let the Tenour of his ... fays Brutus , that his Confulfhip deferves more Applaufe than my putting Cafar to Death , be ⚫ caufe cause I am not ...
... fay any thing of Difparagement , and the Reader's Ears to hear any thing of Praife from him . Let the Tenour of his ... fays Brutus , that his Confulfhip deferves more Applaufe than my putting Cafar to Death , be ⚫ caufe cause I am not ...
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... fays Montagne , I am a great Lover of your White Wines- What the Devil fig- nifies it to the Publick , fays Scaliger , whether be is a Lo- ner of White Wines or of Red Wines ? I cannot here forbear mentioning a Tribe of Ego- tifts for ...
... fays Montagne , I am a great Lover of your White Wines- What the Devil fig- nifies it to the Publick , fays Scaliger , whether be is a Lo- ner of White Wines or of Red Wines ? I cannot here forbear mentioning a Tribe of Ego- tifts for ...
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Էջ 267 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Էջ 265 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Էջ 140 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Էջ 74 - We make provisions for this life, as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life, as though it were never to have a beginning. Should a spirit of superior rank, who is a stranger to human nature, accidentally alight upon the earth, and take a survey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us...
Էջ 57 - ... him. He knows that his helper is at hand, and is always nearer to him than any thing else can be, which is capable of annoying or terrifying him.
Էջ 12 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Էջ 57 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
Էջ 139 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Էջ 13 - ... angry father. The graceless youth, in less than a quarter. of an hour, pulled the old gentleman by the beard, and had...
Էջ 70 - He further added, that a single Ray of it dissipates Pain, and Care, and Melancholy from the Person on whom it falls. In short, says he, its Presence naturally changes every Place into a kind of Heaven.