The Spectator, Volume 3Little, Brown and Company, 1856 |
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Pagina 16
... present speculation . 66 MR . SPECTATOR , " I am the young widow of a country gentleman , who has left me entire mistress of a large fortune , which he agreed to as an equivalent for the differ- ence in our years . In these ...
... present speculation . 66 MR . SPECTATOR , " I am the young widow of a country gentleman , who has left me entire mistress of a large fortune , which he agreed to as an equivalent for the differ- ence in our years . In these ...
Pagina 21
... present speculation : for after my fancy had run over the most obvious and common calamities which men of mean fortunes are liable to , it descended to those little insults and contempts , which , though they may seem to dwindle into ...
... present speculation : for after my fancy had run over the most obvious and common calamities which men of mean fortunes are liable to , it descended to those little insults and contempts , which , though they may seem to dwindle into ...
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... present age it must be allowed , that some of our greatest geniuses for wit and business have almost entirely broke the neck of these absurdities . Victor , after having despatched the most import- ant affairs of the commonwealth , has ...
... present age it must be allowed , that some of our greatest geniuses for wit and business have almost entirely broke the neck of these absurdities . Victor , after having despatched the most import- ant affairs of the commonwealth , has ...
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... present hour . You may indeed observe in people of pleasure a certain complacency and absence of all severity , which the habit of a loose unconcerned life gives them ; but tell the man of pleasure your secret wants , cares , or sorrows ...
... present hour . You may indeed observe in people of pleasure a certain complacency and absence of all severity , which the habit of a loose unconcerned life gives them ; but tell the man of pleasure your secret wants , cares , or sorrows ...
Pagina 33
... present busy scene about them they lament no man whose capacity can be supplied by another ; and where men converse with- out delicacy , the next man you meet will serve as well as he whom you have lived with half your life . To such ...
... present busy scene about them they lament no man whose capacity can be supplied by another ; and where men converse with- out delicacy , the next man you meet will serve as well as he whom you have lived with half your life . To such ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 67 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among those several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for? Does life appear miserable that gives thee opportunities of earning such...
Pagina 159 - 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 82 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Pagina 369 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 317 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Pagina 357 - And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach ; We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour : How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints...
Pagina 159 - 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 55 - ... good apprehension that makes him incapable of knowing what his teacher means. A brisk imagination very often may suggest an error, which a lad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy even towards a wrong interpretation of his meaning, the sufferings of the scholar's body are to rectify the mistakes of his mind.
Pagina 160 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering : If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep? If I have...
Pagina 384 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life: cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understandings : cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them. In short, cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and...