The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volume 5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... taken early ; but in this case every reader is to consider , whether it is not better for him to be half a year behind - hand with the fashionable and polite part of the world , than to strain himself beyond his circumstances . My ...
... taken early ; but in this case every reader is to consider , whether it is not better for him to be half a year behind - hand with the fashionable and polite part of the world , than to strain himself beyond his circumstances . My ...
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... st the wide extended deep In all its horrors rise ! i . c . By himself . So early had a spirit of piety taken possession of this excellent man's mind ! V. ' Confusion dwelt in ev'ry face , And fear 12 No. 489 . SPECTATOR .
... st the wide extended deep In all its horrors rise ! i . c . By himself . So early had a spirit of piety taken possession of this excellent man's mind ! V. ' Confusion dwelt in ev'ry face , And fear 12 No. 489 . SPECTATOR .
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... taken notions of piety , or weakness of understanding , love to indulge this uncomfortable way of life , and give up themselves a prey to grief and melancholy . Super- stitious fears and groundless scruples cut them off from the ...
... taken notions of piety , or weakness of understanding , love to indulge this uncomfortable way of life , and give up themselves a prey to grief and melancholy . Super- stitious fears and groundless scruples cut them off from the ...
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... taken off that senseless ridicule , which for many years the witlings of the town have turned upon their fathers and mothers . For my own part , I was born in wedlock , and I do not care who knows it for which reason , among many others ...
... taken off that senseless ridicule , which for many years the witlings of the town have turned upon their fathers and mothers . For my own part , I was born in wedlock , and I do not care who knows it for which reason , among many others ...
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... taken up in giving out orders , in prescribing duties , in hearing parties , in administering justice , and in distributing rewards and punishments . To speak in the language of the Centurion , I say unto one , go , and he goeth ; and ...
... taken up in giving out orders , in prescribing duties , in hearing parties , in administering justice , and in distributing rewards and punishments . To speak in the language of the Centurion , I say unto one , go , and he goeth ; and ...
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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.