The Spectator, Том 5George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... write it . Having thus adjusted all necessary Preliminaries with my Reader , I shall not trouble him with any more pre fatory Discourses , but proceed in my old Method , and entertain him with Speculations on every useful Subject that ...
... write it . Having thus adjusted all necessary Preliminaries with my Reader , I shall not trouble him with any more pre fatory Discourses , but proceed in my old Method , and entertain him with Speculations on every useful Subject that ...
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... Writing . Be that as it will , the blind Teresias was not more famous in Greece , than this dumb Artist has been for some Years last past , in the Cities of London and Westminster . Thus much for the profound Gentleman who honours me ...
... Writing . Be that as it will , the blind Teresias was not more famous in Greece , than this dumb Artist has been for some Years last past , in the Cities of London and Westminster . Thus much for the profound Gentleman who honours me ...
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... Writing with the Name of an Egotism ; a Figure not to be found among the ancient Rhetoricians , The most violent Egotism which I have met with in the Course of my Reading , is that of Cardinal Woolsey , Ego & Rex meus , I and my King ...
... Writing with the Name of an Egotism ; a Figure not to be found among the ancient Rhetoricians , The most violent Egotism which I have met with in the Course of my Reading , is that of Cardinal Woolsey , Ego & Rex meus , I and my King ...
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... writes under a fictitious Personage , the talking of one's self may give some Diversion to the Publick ; but I would advise every other Writer never to speak of himself , unless there be something very considerable in his Character ...
... writes under a fictitious Personage , the talking of one's self may give some Diversion to the Publick ; but I would advise every other Writer never to speak of himself , unless there be something very considerable in his Character ...
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... Writer has taken Notice of them ; I mean those empty conceited Fellows , who repeat as Sayings of their own , or some of their particular Friends , several Jests which were made before they were born , and which every one who has ...
... Writer has taken Notice of them ; I mean those empty conceited Fellows , who repeat as Sayings of their own , or some of their particular Friends , several Jests which were made before they were born , and which every one who has ...
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Сторінка 237 - 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...
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Сторінка 121 - Existence, by telling us, That he comprehends infinite Duration in every Moment; That Eternity is with him a Punctual stans, a fixed Point ; or, which is as good Sense, an Infinite Instant?
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Сторінка 36 - ... circumference to one creature than another, according as we rise one above another in the scale of existence. But the widest of these our spheres has its circumference. When therefore we reflect on the Divine Nature, we are so used and accustomed to this imperfection in ourselves, that we cannot forbear, in some measure, ascribing it to Him in whom there is no shadow of imperfection. Our reason indeed assures us, that his attributes are infinite ; but the poorness of our conceptions is such,...
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