The Spectator, Band 3W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... humour , but are still for deriving every action from fome plot or contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual fcheme of caufes and events , and preferving a conftant correfpondence between the camp and the council ta- ble . And thus it ...
... humour , but are still for deriving every action from fome plot or contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual fcheme of caufes and events , and preferving a conftant correfpondence between the camp and the council ta- ble . And thus it ...
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... humour fo far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fond- ness of a lover , and are then fure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the contrary ...
... humour fo far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fond- ness of a lover , and are then fure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the contrary ...
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... humour with merchants , it should be no offence to offer one not quite fo old in their defence . When a man happens to break in Holland , they fay of him that " he has not kept true accounts . ' This phrafe , perhaps among us , would ...
... humour with merchants , it should be no offence to offer one not quite fo old in their defence . When a man happens to break in Holland , they fay of him that " he has not kept true accounts . ' This phrafe , perhaps among us , would ...
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... humour ? Nothing , but that I must convince her of my good opinion by my practice ; and then I am to give her poffeffion of my little ready - money , and , for a day and a half following , diflike all the diflikes , and extol every ...
... humour ? Nothing , but that I must convince her of my good opinion by my practice ; and then I am to give her poffeffion of my little ready - money , and , for a day and a half following , diflike all the diflikes , and extol every ...
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... humour . Such a tranfient temporary good - nature as this , is not that philanthropy , that love of mankind , which deferves the title of a moral virtue . The next way of a man's bringing his good - nature to the teft , is , to confider ...
... humour . Such a tranfient temporary good - nature as this , is not that philanthropy , that love of mankind , which deferves the title of a moral virtue . The next way of a man's bringing his good - nature to the teft , is , to confider ...
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Seite 68 - I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly; and I believe he will often find, that what he calls a zeal for his religion, is either pride, interest, or ill-nature.
Seite 183 - ... human figure ; sometimes we see the man appearing distinctly in all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings.
Seite 197 - 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...
Seite 218 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
Seite 207 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing 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.
Seite 41 - 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...
Seite 213 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others ; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Seite 89 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
Seite 104 - It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger, had not he prevented him...
Seite 213 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...