The Spectator, Volume 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... consider an infant born into the world , and beholding itself the mightiest thing in it , itself the present admi- ration and future prospect of a fawning people , who profess themselves great or mean , according to the figure he is to ...
... consider an infant born into the world , and beholding itself the mightiest thing in it , itself the present admi- ration and future prospect of a fawning people , who profess themselves great or mean , according to the figure he is to ...
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... consider those parts of the material world which lie the nearest to us , and are there- fore subject to our observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider the infinity of animals with which it is stocked . Every part of matter ...
... consider those parts of the material world which lie the nearest to us , and are there- fore subject to our observations and inquiries , it is amazing to consider the infinity of animals with which it is stocked . Every part of matter ...
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... considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our know- ledge . There are some living creatures which are raised just above dead matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion ...
... considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our know- ledge . There are some living creatures which are raised just above dead matter . To mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion ...
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... considering that they are in a state of ignorance , or as we usually say , do not know their right hand from their left . There is another tribe of persons who are re- tainers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon all ...
... considering that they are in a state of ignorance , or as we usually say , do not know their right hand from their left . There is another tribe of persons who are re- tainers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon all ...
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... consider of it before he made his reply . When the day was expired he desired two days ; and afterwards , in- stead of returning his answer , demanded still double the time to consider of it . This great poet and philosopher , the more ...
... consider of it before he made his reply . When the day was expired he desired two days ; and afterwards , in- stead of returning his answer , demanded still double the time to consider of it . This great poet and philosopher , the more ...
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Página 139 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Página 254 - 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.
Página 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Página 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Página 139 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Página 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Página 223 - 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 garments hovered in the wind.
Página 88 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Página 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.