The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... mention of any such fashion ; and we are something shy of affording matter to the button - makers for a second petition 2 . • What I would humbly propose to the public is , that there may be a society erected in London , to consist of ...
... mention of any such fashion ; and we are something shy of affording matter to the button - makers for a second petition 2 . • What I would humbly propose to the public is , that there may be a society erected in London , to consist of ...
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... mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philosophic resignation to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general ; for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and numbers , not only in cities ...
... mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philosophic resignation to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general ; for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and numbers , not only in cities ...
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... mention also the pangs of it in the heart of a woman . You have very judiciously , and with the greatest pe- netration imaginable , considered it as woman is the 6 Job xxix . 2 , & c . xxx . 25 , & c . xxxi . 6 , & c . passim . 1 N ...
... mention also the pangs of it in the heart of a woman . You have very judiciously , and with the greatest pe- netration imaginable , considered it as woman is the 6 Job xxix . 2 , & c . xxx . 25 , & c . xxxi . 6 , & c . passim . 1 N ...
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... mention La Fontaine , who by this way of writing is come more into vogue than any other author of our times . The fables I have here mentioned are raised alto- gether upon brutes and vegetables , with some of our own species mixt among ...
... mention La Fontaine , who by this way of writing is come more into vogue than any other author of our times . The fables I have here mentioned are raised alto- gether upon brutes and vegetables , with some of our own species mixt among ...
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... mention their tendency for promoting the happiness of socie- ties , or of particular persons , are exploded as errors and prejudices ; and schemes erected in their stead that are altogether monstrous and irrational , and re- quire the ...
... mention their tendency for promoting the happiness of socie- ties , or of particular persons , are exploded as errors and prejudices ; and schemes erected in their stead that are altogether monstrous and irrational , and re- quire the ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.