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... discourse generally leans one way , and whatever is the subject of it , tends obliquely either to the detracting from others , or the extolling of himself . Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man , which exposes him to the ...
... discourse generally leans one way , and whatever is the subject of it , tends obliquely either to the detracting from others , or the extolling of himself . Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man , which exposes him to the ...
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... discourse that may be treated without warmth or passion . This is said to have been the first design of those gentlemen who set on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greatest ge- niuses ...
... discourse that may be treated without warmth or passion . This is said to have been the first design of those gentlemen who set on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greatest ge- niuses ...
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... , which we generally call the out- side . This observation is so very notorious , that when in ordinary ' The note at the end of No. 261 applies to this also.-G. discourse we say a man has a fine head , 28 [ No. 265 . SPECTATOR .
... , which we generally call the out- side . This observation is so very notorious , that when in ordinary ' The note at the end of No. 261 applies to this also.-G. discourse we say a man has a fine head , 28 [ No. 265 . SPECTATOR .
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Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. discourse we say a man has a fine head , a long head , or a good head , we express ourselves metaphorically , and speak in relation to his understanding ; whereas when we say of a woman , she has ...
Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. discourse we say a man has a fine head , a long head , or a good head , we express ourselves metaphorically , and speak in relation to his understanding ; whereas when we say of a woman , she has ...
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... discourse . If you ob- serve the measure of his verse , he has with great judgment sup- pressed a syllable in several words , and shortened those of two syllables into one , by which method , besides the above - mentioned advantage , he ...
... discourse . If you ob- serve the measure of his verse , he has with great judgment sup- pressed a syllable in several words , and shortened those of two syllables into one , by which method , besides the above - mentioned advantage , he ...
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Página 525 - 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 132 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 175 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Página 123 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 96 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Página 89 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Página 100 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 129 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 135 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Página 118 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.