The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it excites fresh desires ...
... tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it excites fresh desires ...
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... tion . I shall in the last place shew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that ...
... tion . I shall in the last place shew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that ...
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... tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge in him ; which give him a relish of such reflections and speculations as have an aptness to improve the mind , and to make ...
... tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge in him ; which give him a relish of such reflections and speculations as have an aptness to improve the mind , and to make ...
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... tion , might have set their country in a flame . The air - pump , the barometer , the quadrant , and the like inventions , were thrown out to these busy spirits , as tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on ...
... tion , might have set their country in a flame . The air - pump , the barometer , the quadrant , and the like inventions , were thrown out to these busy spirits , as tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on ...
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... tion ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite ...
... tion ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite ...
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Page 394 - 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 noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 455 - 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 shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 437 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Page 102 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 69 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 68 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 645 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 419 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise : n.
Page 102 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 487 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.