The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Pagina 16
... confider how far the Vanity of Mankind has laid it self out in Drefs , whata prodigious number of People it maintains , and what a Cir- culation of Money it occafions . Providence in this Cafe makes use of the Folly which we will not ...
... confider how far the Vanity of Mankind has laid it self out in Drefs , whata prodigious number of People it maintains , and what a Cir- culation of Money it occafions . Providence in this Cafe makes use of the Folly which we will not ...
Pagina 21
... confider- ing things in their right light , and as Nature has form'd them , and not as our own Fancies or Appetites would have them . He then who took a young Lady to his Bed , with no other Confideration than the Expectation of B 3 ...
... confider- ing things in their right light , and as Nature has form'd them , and not as our own Fancies or Appetites would have them . He then who took a young Lady to his Bed , with no other Confideration than the Expectation of B 3 ...
Pagina 26
... confider it only as a Machine I am obliged to take Care of , in order to enjoy my Soul in its Faculties with Alacrity ; well remembring , that this Habitation of Clay will in a few Years be a mean- er Piece of Earth than any Utenfil ...
... confider it only as a Machine I am obliged to take Care of , in order to enjoy my Soul in its Faculties with Alacrity ; well remembring , that this Habitation of Clay will in a few Years be a mean- er Piece of Earth than any Utenfil ...
Pagina 29
... confider the diffe- rent Notions , which different Perfons have of the fame Thing . If Men of low Condition very often fet a Value on Things , which are not prized by those who are in an higher Station of Life , there are many Things ...
... confider the diffe- rent Notions , which different Perfons have of the fame Thing . If Men of low Condition very often fet a Value on Things , which are not prized by those who are in an higher Station of Life , there are many Things ...
Pagina 32
... confider her only as one who lives in his House to teach him Philofophy . Tom Dapperwit fays , that he agrees with me in that whole Difcourfe , excepting only the last Sentence , where I af- firm the married State to be either an Heaven ...
... confider her only as one who lives in his House to teach him Philofophy . Tom Dapperwit fays , that he agrees with me in that whole Difcourfe , excepting only the last Sentence , where I af- firm the married State to be either an Heaven ...
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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.
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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...