The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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... greatest beauty in town or court had ever done in brocade . In short , she is such an one as promises me a good heir to my estate ; and if by her means I cannot leave to my children what are falsely called the gifts of birth , high ...
... greatest beauty in town or court had ever done in brocade . In short , she is such an one as promises me a good heir to my estate ; and if by her means I cannot leave to my children what are falsely called the gifts of birth , high ...
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... greatest part of them were not sincerely designed to discountenance vice and ignorance , and support the interest of true wis- ' dom and virtue , I should be more severe upon my- self than the public is disposed to be . In the mean ...
... greatest part of them were not sincerely designed to discountenance vice and ignorance , and support the interest of true wis- ' dom and virtue , I should be more severe upon my- self than the public is disposed to be . In the mean ...
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... greatest part of my estate has been hitherto of an unsteady and volatile nature , either tossed upon seas , or fluctuating in funds ; it is now fixed and settled in substantial acres and tenements . I have removed it from the ...
... greatest part of my estate has been hitherto of an unsteady and volatile nature , either tossed upon seas , or fluctuating in funds ; it is now fixed and settled in substantial acres and tenements . I have removed it from the ...
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... greatest merit , and to return his name to me before Lady - day , at which time I intend to sit upon business . By this means , I may have reason to hope , that the club over which I shall preside , will be the very flower and ...
... greatest merit , and to return his name to me before Lady - day , at which time I intend to sit upon business . By this means , I may have reason to hope , that the club over which I shall preside , will be the very flower and ...
Page 55
... greatest freedom , when I was not under any impediment of thinking : I therefore threw myself into an assembly of ladies , but could not , for my life , get in a word among them ; and found that if I did not change my com- pany , I was ...
... greatest freedom , when I was not under any impediment of thinking : I therefore threw myself into an assembly of ladies , but could not , for my life , get in a word among them ; and found that if I did not change my com- pany , I was ...
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Page 80 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 221 - ... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 221 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 214 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 2 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Page 231 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 196 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 64 - I did not question came loaded with his crimes; but upon searching into his bundle I found that instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory.
Page 458 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 79 - ... material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.