A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens1828 - 80 pages |
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... qualities . The truth of it is , there is not a single science , or any branch of it , that might not furnish a man with business for life , though it were much longer than it is . I shall not here engage on those beaten sub- jects of ...
... qualities . The truth of it is , there is not a single science , or any branch of it , that might not furnish a man with business for life , though it were much longer than it is . I shall not here engage on those beaten sub- jects of ...
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... qualities that render us beneficial to each other . For this reason even an extravagant man , who has nothing else to recommend him but a false generosity , is often more beloved and es- teemed than a person of a much more finished ...
... qualities that render us beneficial to each other . For this reason even an extravagant man , who has nothing else to recommend him but a false generosity , is often more beloved and es- teemed than a person of a much more finished ...
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... qualities which are of so amiable a nature in themselves , and have nothing to do with the points in dispute . Men of virtue , though of different interests , ought to consider themselves as more nearly united with one another , than ...
... qualities which are of so amiable a nature in themselves , and have nothing to do with the points in dispute . Men of virtue , though of different interests , ought to consider themselves as more nearly united with one another , than ...
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... qualities in the mind of man , but there is none so useful as dis- cretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest , which sets them at work in their pro- per times and places , and turns them to the ad- vantage of the ...
... qualities in the mind of man , but there is none so useful as dis- cretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest , which sets them at work in their pro- per times and places , and turns them to the ad- vantage of the ...
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... qualities , is sometimes looked upon as a proper person to keep off impertinence and solicitation from his superior ; but this is a kind of merit that can never atone for the injustice which may very often arise from it . There are two ...
... qualities , is sometimes looked upon as a proper person to keep off impertinence and solicitation from his superior ; but this is a kind of merit that can never atone for the injustice which may very often arise from it . There are two ...
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Page 303 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend in the midst of the service calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Page 302 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 281 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense, and some learning, of a very regular life, and obliging conversation...
Page 281 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Page 395 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Page 279 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Page 109 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 194 - Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 184 - Terror and commiseration leave a pleasing anguish in the mind ; and fix the audience in such a serious composure of thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more of our English tragedies have succeeded, in which the favourites of the audience sink under their calamities, than those in which they recover themselves out of them.