The Spectator, Volume 6George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... proper member of a Ministry , by whose services your sovereign and country are in so high and flourishing a condition , as makes all other princes and potentates powerful or inconsiderable in Europe , as they are friends or enemies to ...
... proper member of a Ministry , by whose services your sovereign and country are in so high and flourishing a condition , as makes all other princes and potentates powerful or inconsiderable in Europe , as they are friends or enemies to ...
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... proper for it , which are as absolutely necessary to the formation of any moral or intel- lectual excellence , as they are to the being and growth of plants ; and I know not by what fate and folly it is , that men are taught not to ...
... proper for it , which are as absolutely necessary to the formation of any moral or intel- lectual excellence , as they are to the being and growth of plants ; and I know not by what fate and folly it is , that men are taught not to ...
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... proper sphere as Tully was in his , and should in a very short time find impertinence and affectation banished from among the women , and coxcombs and false characters from among the men . For my part , I could never consider this ...
... proper sphere as Tully was in his , and should in a very short time find impertinence and affectation banished from among the women , and coxcombs and false characters from among the men . For my part , I could never consider this ...
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... proper for divine songs and anthems . There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages , when they are compared with the Oriental forms of speech ; and it happens very luckily , that the Hebrew ...
... proper for divine songs and anthems . There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages , when they are compared with the Oriental forms of speech ; and it happens very luckily , that the Hebrew ...
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... proper for the airs of music , I cannot but wonder that persons of distinc- tion should give so little attention and encourage- ment to that kind of music , which would have its foundation in reason , and which would improve our virtue ...
... proper for the airs of music , I cannot but wonder that persons of distinc- tion should give so little attention and encourage- ment to that kind of music , which would have its foundation in reason , and which would improve our virtue ...
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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.