The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volume 5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... French , which Monsieur Bayle has celebrated for a very fine one , and which the famous author of the Art of Speaking calls an admir- able one , that turns upon a thought of the same nature . If I could have done it justice in English ...
... French , which Monsieur Bayle has celebrated for a very fine one , and which the famous author of the Art of Speaking calls an admir- able one , that turns upon a thought of the same nature . If I could have done it justice in English ...
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... French cri- tics , from whom Mr. Addison took it , to just nothing : for what is that thought , which , in the hands of an able writer , may not be so turned , as to pass for truth , with most readers ? the fabulous machines of the ...
... French cri- tics , from whom Mr. Addison took it , to just nothing : for what is that thought , which , in the hands of an able writer , may not be so turned , as to pass for truth , with most readers ? the fabulous machines of the ...
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... French by Monsieur Galland . The fable has in it such a wild , but natural simplicity , that I question not but my reader will be as much pleased with it as I have been , and that he will consider himself , " if he reflects on the The ...
... French by Monsieur Galland . The fable has in it such a wild , but natural simplicity , that I question not but my reader will be as much pleased with it as I have been , and that he will consider himself , " if he reflects on the The ...
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... French king , though in reality , I only make use of him for a help to discourse . In short , I wrangle and dispute for exer- cise ; and have carried this point so far , that I was once like to have been run through the body for making ...
... French king , though in reality , I only make use of him for a help to discourse . In short , I wrangle and dispute for exer- cise ; and have carried this point so far , that I was once like to have been run through the body for making ...
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... , than . See the note on p . 68 . For that ] For [ this reason , viz . ] that which the French express by parceque , i . e . par ce que , for this that . hundred times a day . Nay , they are not 104 No. 557 . SPECTATOR .
... , than . See the note on p . 68 . For that ] For [ this reason , viz . ] that which the French express by parceque , i . e . par ce que , for this that . hundred times a day . Nay , they are not 104 No. 557 . SPECTATOR .
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Page 159 - 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 124 - 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 364 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not, It ought not to be sported with.
Page 11 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 46 - ... lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life ; but this only proved a light'ning before death. He has bequeathed to this lady, as a token of his love, a great...
Page 121 - I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened...
Page 108 - I saw , with unspeakable pleasure , the whole species thus delivered from its sorrows: though at the same time , as we stood round the heap , and surveyed the several materials of which it was composed , there was...
Page 142 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...
Page 106 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the center of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.
Page 251 - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.