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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Page 68
... perhaps by them some proverbs against the Roman generosity , in fighting for and bestowing other people's goods . But since Sir Roger has taken occasion from an old proverb to be out of humour with merchants , it should be no offence to ...
... perhaps by them some proverbs against the Roman generosity , in fighting for and bestowing other people's goods . But since Sir Roger has taken occasion from an old proverb to be out of humour with merchants , it should be no offence to ...
Page 92
... perhaps consult the good of both , more than I should do , did I always write to the parti- cular taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon , the sprightly reader , who takes up my paper in order to be diverted ...
... perhaps consult the good of both , more than I should do , did I always write to the parti- cular taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon , the sprightly reader , who takes up my paper in order to be diverted ...
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... perhaps more merit in it than the generality of readers imagine . Did they know how many thoughts occur in a point of humour , which a discreet author in modesty suppresses ; how many strokes of raillery present themselves , which could ...
... perhaps more merit in it than the generality of readers imagine . Did they know how many thoughts occur in a point of humour , which a discreet author in modesty suppresses ; how many strokes of raillery present themselves , which could ...
Page 112
... in- deed very proper to gain the attention of an in- censed rabble , at a time when perhaps they would have torn to pieces any man who had preached the same doctrine to them in an open and direct 112 THE SPECTATOR . No. 183 .
... in- deed very proper to gain the attention of an in- censed rabble , at a time when perhaps they would have torn to pieces any man who had preached the same doctrine to them in an open and direct 112 THE SPECTATOR . No. 183 .
Page 130
... perhaps may , because it is adapted to their vanity , by which they seem to be guided much more than their reason . I would therefore have them consider , that the wisest and best of men , in all ages of the world , have been those who ...
... perhaps may , because it is adapted to their vanity , by which they seem to be guided much more than their reason . I would therefore have them consider , that the wisest and best of men , in all ages of the world , have been those who ...
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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.