The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... greatest talents , is cold and languid in his affections . But , alas ! why do I make a difficulty in speaking of my worthy ancestor's failings ? His little absurdities and incapacity for the conversation of the politest men are dead ...
... greatest talents , is cold and languid in his affections . But , alas ! why do I make a difficulty in speaking of my worthy ancestor's failings ? His little absurdities and incapacity for the conversation of the politest men are dead ...
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... greatest obligations , and uses me with a distinction that is not to be expected from one so much my su- perior in fortune , years , and understanding . He in- sinuates , as if I had a certain right to his favours from some merit ...
... greatest obligations , and uses me with a distinction that is not to be expected from one so much my su- perior in fortune , years , and understanding . He in- sinuates , as if I had a certain right to his favours from some merit ...
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... greatest assistance in this good work . Printing this letter would be some little instance of my gratitude ; and your favour herein will very much oblige 6 Nov. 24 . Your most humble ' servant , & c . W. C. Ꭲ . No. 547. THURSDAY , NOV ...
... greatest assistance in this good work . Printing this letter would be some little instance of my gratitude ; and your favour herein will very much oblige 6 Nov. 24 . Your most humble ' servant , & c . W. C. Ꭲ . No. 547. THURSDAY , NOV ...
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... greatest point of glory and success , though his character is morally vicious , and only po- etically good , if I may use the phrase of our modern critics . The Eneid is filled with innocent , unhappy persons . Nisus and Euryalus ...
... greatest point of glory and success , though his character is morally vicious , and only po- etically good , if I may use the phrase of our modern critics . The Eneid is filled with innocent , unhappy persons . Nisus and Euryalus ...
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... greatest part of my estate has been hitherto of an unsteady and volatile nature , either tossed upon seas or fluc- tuating in funds , it is now fixed and settled in sub- stantial acres and tenements . I have removed it from the ...
... greatest part of my estate has been hitherto of an unsteady and volatile nature , either tossed upon seas or fluc- tuating in funds , it is now fixed and settled in sub- stantial acres and tenements . I have removed it from the ...
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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.