The Spectator, Volume 6George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... mean Thomas Woolston , who was born in 1669 , educated at Sydney College , Cambridge , published , in 1705 , The Old Apology for the Truth against the Jews and Gentiles revived , ' and afterwards was im- prisoned and fined for levity in ...
... mean Thomas Woolston , who was born in 1669 , educated at Sydney College , Cambridge , published , in 1705 , The Old Apology for the Truth against the Jews and Gentiles revived , ' and afterwards was im- prisoned and fined for levity in ...
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... means by " tis in vain to deny it . " I shall stay here all the evening . Your amazed CYNTHIO . ' As soon as Robin arrived with this , Flavia answered : - ' DEAR CYNTHIO , I HAVE walked a turn or two in my ante- chamber since I writ to ...
... means by " tis in vain to deny it . " I shall stay here all the evening . Your amazed CYNTHIO . ' As soon as Robin arrived with this , Flavia answered : - ' DEAR CYNTHIO , I HAVE walked a turn or two in my ante- chamber since I writ to ...
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... mean that hypocrisy by which a man does not only deceive the world , but very often imposes on himself ; that hypocrisy which conceals his own heart from him , and makes him believe he is more virtuous than he really is , and either not ...
... mean that hypocrisy by which a man does not only deceive the world , but very often imposes on himself ; that hypocrisy which conceals his own heart from him , and makes him believe he is more virtuous than he really is , and either not ...
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... means prescribed for this purpose are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred Writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that Person who acted up to the perfection of human nature , and is ...
... means prescribed for this purpose are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred Writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that Person who acted up to the perfection of human nature , and is ...
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... mean tricks to suspend the nuptials . I have no manner of hopes for myself ; Emilia , for so I'll call her , is a woman of the most strict virtue ; her lover is a gentleman who of all others I could wish my friend ; but envy and ...
... mean tricks to suspend the nuptials . I have no manner of hopes for myself ; Emilia , for so I'll call her , is a woman of the most strict virtue ; her lover is a gentleman who of all others I could wish my friend ; but envy and ...
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Page 336 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole, III.
Page 217 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 336 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 371 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 372 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 72 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 73 - I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon.
Page 366 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 75 - It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.
Page 206 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.