The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... wife how to behave herself towards a false , an intemperate , a choleric , a sullen , a covetous , or a silly husband , has not spoken one word of a jealous husband . ' Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that ...
... wife how to behave herself towards a false , an intemperate , a choleric , a sullen , a covetous , or a silly husband , has not spoken one word of a jealous husband . ' Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that ...
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... wife , if we except the jealous husband . But the great unhappiness of this passion is , that it naturally tends to alienate the affection which it is so solicitous to ingross ; and that for these two reasons , because it lays too great ...
... wife , if we except the jealous husband . But the great unhappiness of this passion is , that it naturally tends to alienate the affection which it is so solicitous to ingross ; and that for these two reasons , because it lays too great ...
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... wife of thy bosom , and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself ' . And here , among the other torments which this passion produces , we may usually observe that none are greater mourners than jealous men , when the person who ...
... wife of thy bosom , and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself ' . And here , among the other torments which this passion produces , we may usually observe that none are greater mourners than jealous men , when the person who ...
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... wives . A second sort of men , who are most liable to this passion , are those of cunning , wary , and distrustful tempers . It is a fault very justly found in histories composed by politicians , that they leave nothing to chance or ...
... wives . A second sort of men , who are most liable to this passion , are those of cunning , wary , and distrustful tempers . It is a fault very justly found in histories composed by politicians , that they leave nothing to chance or ...
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... wife's jurisdiction , and should , if possible , escape her ob- servation ; but jealousy calls upon her particularly for its cure , and deserves all her art and application in the attempt . Besides , she has this for her encou- ragement ...
... wife's jurisdiction , and should , if possible , escape her ob- servation ; but jealousy calls upon her particularly for its cure , and deserves all her art and application in the attempt . Besides , she has this for her encou- ragement ...
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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.