The Spectator, Volume 3Tonson, 1739 |
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... Spirit that it is the highest Step to which human Nature can arrive . Triumph , Applaufe , Accla- mation , are dear to the Mind of Man ; but it is ftill a more exquifite Delight to fay to your felf , you havề done well , than to hear ...
... Spirit that it is the highest Step to which human Nature can arrive . Triumph , Applaufe , Accla- mation , are dear to the Mind of Man ; but it is ftill a more exquifite Delight to fay to your felf , you havề done well , than to hear ...
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... Spirit , which have been erected by Merchants fince the Refor- mation , but at prefent content my felf with what he al- lows us , Parfimony and Frugality . If it were confiftent with the Quality of fo ancient a Baronet as Sir ROGER , to ...
... Spirit , which have been erected by Merchants fince the Refor- mation , but at prefent content my felf with what he al- lows us , Parfimony and Frugality . If it were confiftent with the Quality of fo ancient a Baronet as Sir ROGER , to ...
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... Spirit of that Divine Author .. THERE were two Families which from the Beginn ning of the World were as oppofite to each other as Light and Darkness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest Defcendant of ...
... Spirit of that Divine Author .. THERE were two Families which from the Beginn ning of the World were as oppofite to each other as Light and Darkness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest Defcendant of ...
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... Infidels , I must farther ob- ferve that they are likewife in a most particular manner poffeffed with the Spirit of Bigotry . They are wedded to No 186 . to Opinions full of Contradiction and Impoffibility N ° 185 The SPECTATOR . 69.
... Infidels , I must farther ob- ferve that they are likewife in a most particular manner poffeffed with the Spirit of Bigotry . They are wedded to No 186 . to Opinions full of Contradiction and Impoffibility N ° 185 The SPECTATOR . 69.
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... Spirit of Bitter- nefs , Arrogance , and Malice : They would not be raif- ing fuch infignificant Cavils , Doubts , and Scruples , as may be started against every thing that is not capa- ' ble of mathematical Demonftration ; in order to ...
... Spirit of Bitter- nefs , Arrogance , and Malice : They would not be raif- ing fuch infignificant Cavils , Doubts , and Scruples , as may be started against every thing that is not capa- ' ble of mathematical Demonftration ; in order to ...
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Página 305 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 103 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes...
Página 106 - If we consider these ancient sages, a great part of whose philosophy consisted in a temperate and abstemious course of life, one would think the life of a philosopher and the life of a man were of two different dates.
Página 212 - IF we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind, and endeavour to trace out the principles of action in every individual, it will, I think...
Página 207 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 222 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
Página 60 - To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns ; not to mention La Fontaine, who by this way of writing is come more into vogue than any other author of our times.
Página 89 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
Página 63 - Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them. But upon examining to which of them any individual they met with belonged, they found each of them had a right to him ; for that, contrary...
Página 217 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...