The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volumen2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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... mankind do un- defervedly pafs under the name of religion ; which is thus made to exprefs itfeif in action , according to the nature of the conftitution in which it refides . So that were we to make a judgment from appearances , one ...
... mankind do un- defervedly pafs under the name of religion ; which is thus made to exprefs itfeif in action , according to the nature of the conftitution in which it refides . So that were we to make a judgment from appearances , one ...
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... mankind are in a plot against his quiet , by studying their own happiness and advantage . Will Profper is an honeft tale - bearer , he makes it his bufi- nefs to join in converfation with envious men . points to fuch an handsome young ...
... mankind are in a plot against his quiet , by studying their own happiness and advantage . Will Profper is an honeft tale - bearer , he makes it his bufi- nefs to join in converfation with envious men . points to fuch an handsome young ...
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... mankind , they fhould rather confider their defamers with pity than indignation . A man cannot have an idea of perfec- tion in another , which he was never fenfible of in himself . Mr. Locke tells us , that upon asking a blind man ...
... mankind , they fhould rather confider their defamers with pity than indignation . A man cannot have an idea of perfec- tion in another , which he was never fenfible of in himself . Mr. Locke tells us , that upon asking a blind man ...
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... mankind are in fome degree guilty of my friend Gosling's extrava- gance . We are apt to rely upon future profpects , and be comereally expenfive while we are only rich in poffibility . We live up to our expectations , not to our ...
... mankind are in fome degree guilty of my friend Gosling's extrava- gance . We are apt to rely upon future profpects , and be comereally expenfive while we are only rich in poffibility . We live up to our expectations , not to our ...
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... mankind , we find many who lay fo great a ftrefs upon faith , that they neglect morality ; and many who build so much upon morality , that they do not pay a due regard to faith . The perfect man fiould be defective in nei- ther of thefe ...
... mankind , we find many who lay fo great a ftrefs upon faith , that they neglect morality ; and many who build so much upon morality , that they do not pay a due regard to faith . The perfect man fiould be defective in nei- ther of thefe ...
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Términos y frases comunes
actions anfwer arifes beauty becauſe befides cafe confequence confider confideration confifts converfation defign defire difcourfe difcovered divine endeavour eternity exiftence exprefs eyes faculties faid fame fatire fatisfaction fecret feems felf fenfe fenfible fent feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch fuffer fuperior fure give good-nature greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human humour huſband imagination impoffible inftances itſelf juft kind laft lefs live loft look mankind mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion ourſelves paffage paffions pafs perfection perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preferve raiſed reafon reft reprefented Rhadamanthus ſpeak SPECTATOR TATLER thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſeful virtue whofe wife wiſdom words
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Página 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Página 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Página 146 - 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.
Página 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Página 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Página 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Página 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Página 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Página 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.