The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 4J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... species ? It is a very trifling character to be one of the most variable beings of the most variable kind , especially if we consi- der that He who is the great standard of perfec- tion has in him no shadow of change , but A 2 No. 162 ...
... species ? It is a very trifling character to be one of the most variable beings of the most variable kind , especially if we consi- der that He who is the great standard of perfec- tion has in him no shadow of change , but A 2 No. 162 ...
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... very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would make a very mi- serable one . I am engaged in this subject by the following letter No. 163 . 7 THE SPECTATOR .
... very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would make a very mi- serable one . I am engaged in this subject by the following letter No. 163 . 7 THE SPECTATOR .
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... species ) to scatter infection and destroy their posterity . They act the counterparts of a Confucius or a Socrates ; and seem to have been sent into the world to deprave human nature , and sink it into the condition of brutality . I ...
... species ) to scatter infection and destroy their posterity . They act the counterparts of a Confucius or a Socrates ; and seem to have been sent into the world to deprave human nature , and sink it into the condition of brutality . I ...
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... species of men who are properly denomi- nated Castle - Builders , who scorn to be beholden to the earth for a foundation ; or dig in the bowels of it for materials ; but erect their structures in the most unstable of elements , the air ...
... species of men who are properly denomi- nated Castle - Builders , who scorn to be beholden to the earth for a foundation ; or dig in the bowels of it for materials ; but erect their structures in the most unstable of elements , the air ...
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... species , we are falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extin- guished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence and humanity . There is ...
... species , we are falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extin- guished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence and humanity . There is ...
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Page 86 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 7 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 86 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 246 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 153 - The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Page 87 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 244 - ... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
Page 169 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them ; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes the circulation of the blood, temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigour ; if exercise dissipates a growing distemper, temperance starves it. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.
Page 249 - Thus Aristotle's soul, of old that was, May now be damn'd to animate an ass ; Or in this very house, for ought we know, Is doing painful penance in some beau.
Page 181 - Nay, should you be pinched in your argument, you may make your retreat with a very good grace. You were never positive, and are now glad to be better informed.