The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings, Том 3H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794 |
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To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele,
Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about
Their Writings. great virtue . They prosecuted their studies together in their earlier
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To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele,
Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about
Their Writings. great virtue . They prosecuted their studies together in their earlier
...
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Though men may impose upon themselves what they please by their corrupt
imaginations , truth will ever keep its station ; and as glory is nothing else but the
shadow of virtue , it will certainly disappear at the departure of virtue . * But how ...
Though men may impose upon themselves what they please by their corrupt
imaginations , truth will ever keep its station ; and as glory is nothing else but the
shadow of virtue , it will certainly disappear at the departure of virtue . * But how ...
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I am confident that no boy who will not be allured to letters without blows , will
ever be brought to any thing with them . A great or good mind must necessarily
be the worse for such indignities ; and it is a sad change , to lose of its virtue for
the ...
I am confident that no boy who will not be allured to letters without blows , will
ever be brought to any thing with them . A great or good mind must necessarily
be the worse for such indignities ; and it is a sad change , to lose of its virtue for
the ...
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A man must have virtue in him , before he will enter upon the reading of a
SENECA or an EPICTETUS . title of a moral treatise has something in it austere
and shocking to the careless and inconsiderate . For this reason several
unthinking ...
A man must have virtue in him , before he will enter upon the reading of a
SENECA or an EPICTETUS . title of a moral treatise has something in it austere
and shocking to the careless and inconsiderate . For this reason several
unthinking ...
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It is an argument of a loose and ungoverne mind to be affected with the
promiscuous approbation of the generality of mankind ; and a man of virtue
should be too delicate for so coarse an appetite of fame . Men of honour Tollat
sua munera ...
It is an argument of a loose and ungoverne mind to be affected with the
promiscuous approbation of the generality of mankind ; and a man of virtue
should be too delicate for so coarse an appetite of fame . Men of honour Tollat
sua munera ...
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Сторінка 168 - I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
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Сторінка 167 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Сторінка 165 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 168 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Сторінка 167 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Сторінка 259 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Сторінка 166 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
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