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Pagina 7
... yesterday's paper discovered the na- ture of jealousy , and pointed out the persons who are most subject to it , I must here apply myself to my a See N ° 178 . fair correspondents , who desire to live well with a 171 . 7 SPECTATOR .
... yesterday's paper discovered the na- ture of jealousy , and pointed out the persons who are most subject to it , I must here apply myself to my a See N ° 178 . fair correspondents , who desire to live well with a 171 . 7 SPECTATOR .
Pagina 8
fair correspondents , who desire to live well with a jealous husband , and to ease his mind of its unjust suspicions . The first rule I shall propose to be observed is , that you never seem to dislike in another what the jealous man is ...
fair correspondents , who desire to live well with a jealous husband , and to ease his mind of its unjust suspicions . The first rule I shall propose to be observed is , that you never seem to dislike in another what the jealous man is ...
Pagina 12
... live nor die without her . This barbarous instance of a wild unreasonable passion quite put out , for a time , those little remains of affec- tion she still had for her lord . Her thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his ...
... live nor die without her . This barbarous instance of a wild unreasonable passion quite put out , for a time , those little remains of affec- tion she still had for her lord . Her thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his ...
Pagina 49
... live in commerce toge- ther ; or hope that flesh and blood is capable of so strict an alliance , as that a fine woman must go on to improve herself till she is as good and impassive as an angel , only to preserve a fidelity to a brute ...
... live in commerce toge- ther ; or hope that flesh and blood is capable of so strict an alliance , as that a fine woman must go on to improve herself till she is as good and impassive as an angel , only to preserve a fidelity to a brute ...
Pagina 56
... live still in their native coun- try , and transfer their allegiance to a new master . • The fertility of this province , its convenient situa- tion for trade and commerce , its capacity for furnish- ing employment and subsistence to ...
... live still in their native coun- try , and transfer their allegiance to a new master . • The fertility of this province , its convenient situa- tion for trade and commerce , its capacity for furnish- ing employment and subsistence to ...
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Pagina 273 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Pagina 45 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Pagina 45 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 45 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Pagina 46 - If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him : (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul...
Pagina 111 - The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, the man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Pagina 384 - One of our kings,* said my friend, carried his royal inclination a little too far, and there was a committee ordered to look into the . management of his treasury. Among other things it appeared, that his majesty walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, " Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world.
Pagina 142 - ... many thousands of their sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent freedoms to ruin and infamy ; and how many millions of ours have begun with flatteries, protestations, and endearments, but ended with reproaches, perjury, and perfidiousness : they would shun like death the very first approaches of one that might lead them into inextricable labyrinths of guilt and misery.
Pagina 45 - 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?
Pagina 204 - ... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.