The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... creatures of the same species . ' Some are of opinion that the souls of men are all naturally equal , and that the great disparity we so often observe arises from the different organiza- tion or structure of the bodies to which they are ...
... creatures of the same species . ' Some are of opinion that the souls of men are all naturally equal , and that the great disparity we so often observe arises from the different organiza- tion or structure of the bodies to which they are ...
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... creature of his imagination ; and , if any one finds fault with him , the author may reply with the phi- losopher of old , thou dost but beat the case of Anax- archus . ' When I speak in my own private sentiments , I cannot but address ...
... creature of his imagination ; and , if any one finds fault with him , the author may reply with the phi- losopher of old , thou dost but beat the case of Anax- archus . ' When I speak in my own private sentiments , I cannot but address ...
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... creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human ca- lamities which lay before me . There were however several persons who gave me great diversion upon this occasion . I observed one ...
... creatures groaning under their respective burdens , and to consider that prodigious bulk of human ca- lamities which lay before me . There were however several persons who gave me great diversion upon this occasion . I observed one ...
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... creatures with sentiments of humanity and compassion . No. 560. MONDAY , JUNE 28 , 1714 . Verba intermissa retentat . OVID . Met . i . 747 . He tries his tongue , his silence softly breaks . DRYDEN . EVERY one has heard of the famous ...
... creatures with sentiments of humanity and compassion . No. 560. MONDAY , JUNE 28 , 1714 . Verba intermissa retentat . OVID . Met . i . 747 . He tries his tongue , his silence softly breaks . DRYDEN . EVERY one has heard of the famous ...
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... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , and the next morning sends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may positively say that he has broke me a child's ...
... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , and the next morning sends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may positively say that he has broke me a child's ...
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Page 367 - Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 215 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Page 106 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 182 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Page 75 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, •who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garment hovered in the wind.
Page 173 - 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.
Page 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Page 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.