The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Pagina 15
... Reason we are not fo fenfible of those Beauties that at this time may be every where met with ; but when Nature is in her Defolation , and prefents us with nothing but bleak and barrenProfpects , there is fomething unspeakably chear ...
... Reason we are not fo fenfible of those Beauties that at this time may be every where met with ; but when Nature is in her Defolation , and prefents us with nothing but bleak and barrenProfpects , there is fomething unspeakably chear ...
Pagina 18
... Reasons offer'd by which we expected to gain the Approbation of the Publick , were as follows . FIRST , That every one who is confiderable enough to be a mode , and has any Imperfection of Nature or Chance , which it is poffible to hide ...
... Reasons offer'd by which we expected to gain the Approbation of the Publick , were as follows . FIRST , That every one who is confiderable enough to be a mode , and has any Imperfection of Nature or Chance , which it is poffible to hide ...
Pagina 25
... Reason I beg to leave before your Majefty my Reasons for declining to depart from Home ; and will not doubt but , as your Motive in defiring my • Attendance was to make me a happier Man , when you • think that will not be effected by my ...
... Reason I beg to leave before your Majefty my Reasons for declining to depart from Home ; and will not doubt but , as your Motive in defiring my • Attendance was to make me a happier Man , when you • think that will not be effected by my ...
Pagina 35
... Reason why fuch an one died childleís : Why fuch an one was cut off in the Flower of his Youth : Why fuch an one was unhappy in her Marriage : Why one broke his Leg on fuch a particular Spot of Ground , and why another was killed with a ...
... Reason why fuch an one died childleís : Why fuch an one was cut off in the Flower of his Youth : Why fuch an one was unhappy in her Marriage : Why one broke his Leg on fuch a particular Spot of Ground , and why another was killed with a ...
Pagina 42
... Reason ⚫ will fortify his Enemy to elude the fe his regular Efforts ; but your Fool projects , acts and concludes with fuch notable Inconfiftence , that no regular Courfe of Thought can evade or counterplot his prodigious Ma ...
... Reason ⚫ will fortify his Enemy to elude the fe his regular Efforts ; but your Fool projects , acts and concludes with fuch notable Inconfiftence , that no regular Courfe of Thought can evade or counterplot his prodigious Ma ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
againſt alfo Beauty becauſe beſt Bufinefs Buſineſs Cafe caft Circumftances confefs confequently confider Confideration Converfation Defign Defire Difcourfe diſcover eafy Eyes faid fame Faſhion feems feen felf felves ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fingle firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak Friend ftill fuch fuffer fure Gentleman give greateſt herſelf himſelf honeft Honour Houſe humble Servant Inftances itſelf juft Juftice Lady laft leaſt lefs Letter look Love manner Marriage Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature neceffary never Number obferve obliged Occafion Paffion pafs particular Perfons pleafed pleaſed Pleaſure poffible prefent Publick publiſh queftion raiſe Reaſon Rechteren Refpect reft ſeems ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul ſpeak SPECTATOR tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts thouſand thro Town ufual Underſtanding uſed Vifit Virtue whofe Wife Woman World young එම එම එම
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Pagina 159 - He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of. It would have gone to your heart to have heard the moans the dumb creature made on the day of my master's death. He has never joyed himself since; no more has any of us.
Pagina 75 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another...
Pagina 13 - I am so far from being fond of any particular 'one, by reason of its rarity, that if I meet with any one in a field which pleases me, I give it a place in my garden.
Pagina 55 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Pagina 14 - ... with its several little plantations, lying so conveniently under the eye of the beholder, on the other side of it there appears a seeming mount, made up of trees rising one higher than another, in proportion as they approach the centre.
Pagina 164 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Pagina 164 - ... for the livelihood of multitudes which inhabit it. The author* of the Plurality of worlds...
Pagina 159 - Andrew opening the book, found it to be a collection of Acts of Parliament. There was in particular the Act of Uniformity, with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own hand. Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three points, which he had disputed with Sir Roger the last time he appeared at the Club. Sir Andrew, who would have been merry at such an incident on another occasion, at the sight of...
Pagina 13 - There is the same irregularity in my plantations, which run into as great a wilderness as their natures will permit. I take in none that do not naturally rejoice in the soil, and am pleased when I am walking in a labyrinth of my own raising, not to know whether the next tree I shall meet with is an apple or an oak, an elm or a pear-tree.
Pagina 158 - Master's Service, he has left us Pensions and Legacies, which we may live very comfortably upon, the remaining Part of our Days. He has bequeathed a great Deal more in Charity, which is not yet come to my Knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the Parish...