Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 42
... objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a beautiful , constant , and modest wife ; it is there an impudent , fickle , and painted ...
... objects , which are all sophisticated there , and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries . Here pleasure looks ( methinks ) like a beautiful , constant , and modest wife ; it is there an impudent , fickle , and painted ...
Page 54
... object of God's especial providence and grace , of his continual regard and care , of his fatherly love and affec- tion : who , as good Elihu saith , accepteth not the persons of princes , nor regardeth the rich more than the poor ; for ...
... object of God's especial providence and grace , of his continual regard and care , of his fatherly love and affec- tion : who , as good Elihu saith , accepteth not the persons of princes , nor regardeth the rich more than the poor ; for ...
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... object of his sight now , would then be visible to his naked eyes ; and so he would come nearer the discovery of the texture and motion of the minute parts of corporeal things ; and in many of them , probably , get ideas of their inter ...
... object of his sight now , would then be visible to his naked eyes ; and so he would come nearer the discovery of the texture and motion of the minute parts of corporeal things ; and in many of them , probably , get ideas of their inter ...
Page 76
... objects of sight , or have any communication about colours , their appearances being so wholly different . And ... object at once , and that too only at a very near distance . And if by the help of such microscopical eyes ( if I may so ...
... objects of sight , or have any communication about colours , their appearances being so wholly different . And ... object at once , and that too only at a very near distance . And if by the help of such microscopical eyes ( if I may so ...
Page 77
... objects which at first occasioned them , the print wears out , and at last there remains nothing to be seen . Thus the ideas , as well as children of our youth , often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs , to which ...
... objects which at first occasioned them , the print wears out , and at last there remains nothing to be seen . Thus the ideas , as well as children of our youth , often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs , to which ...
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