The Spectator, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... person whom I like , whether I know him or not . This is a particula- rity would be tolerated in me , if they considered that the greatest pleasure I know I receive at my eyes , and that I am obliged to an agreeable per- son for coming ...
... person whom I like , whether I know him or not . This is a particula- rity would be tolerated in me , if they considered that the greatest pleasure I know I receive at my eyes , and that I am obliged to an agreeable per- son for coming ...
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... persons , who speak either at the bar , pulpit , or any public assembly whatsoever , how they discover their ignorance in the use of similies . There are , in the pulpit it- self , as well as in other places , such gross abuses in this ...
... persons , who speak either at the bar , pulpit , or any public assembly whatsoever , how they discover their ignorance in the use of similies . There are , in the pulpit it- self , as well as in other places , such gross abuses in this ...
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... persons in- jured , but also that to bear it longer would be a means to make the offender injure others , before they proceed . Such men clap their hands upon their hearts , and consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a ...
... persons in- jured , but also that to bear it longer would be a means to make the offender injure others , before they proceed . Such men clap their hands upon their hearts , and consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a ...
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... persons in high posts , twilight visits paid and received by ministers of state , clandestine courtships and marriages , secret amours , losses at play , applica- tions for places , with their respective successes and repulses , are the ...
... persons in high posts , twilight visits paid and received by ministers of state , clandestine courtships and marriages , secret amours , losses at play , applica- tions for places , with their respective successes and repulses , are the ...
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... person has had but an ill education , who has not been taught to deny any thing . ' This false kind of modesty has , perhaps , betrayed both sexes into as many vices as the most abandoned impudence ; and is 6 * The motto from Hesiod was ...
... person has had but an ill education , who has not been taught to deny any thing . ' This false kind of modesty has , perhaps , betrayed both sexes into as many vices as the most abandoned impudence ; and is 6 * The motto from Hesiod was ...
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Page 73 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 101 - I HAVE SET THE LoRD ALWAYS BEFORE ME : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 14 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ, Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 101 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 184 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Page 106 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 147 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 72 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 60 - In counterpoise ; now ponders all events, Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...
Page 106 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.