The Spectator, Band 3J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... Pain which a Man feels from the Apprehenfion that he is not equally beloved by the Per- fon whom he entirely loves . Now , because our inward Paffions and Inclinations can never make themselves A 4 visible , vifible , it is impoffible ...
... Pain which a Man feels from the Apprehenfion that he is not equally beloved by the Per- fon whom he entirely loves . Now , because our inward Paffions and Inclinations can never make themselves A 4 visible , vifible , it is impoffible ...
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... Pains with our felves to confider all Things by the Light of Reason and Juftice , tho ' a Man were in the Height of Youth and amorous Inclinations , he would look upon a Coquet with the fame Contempt or Indifference as he would upon a ...
... Pains with our felves to confider all Things by the Light of Reason and Juftice , tho ' a Man were in the Height of Youth and amorous Inclinations , he would look upon a Coquet with the fame Contempt or Indifference as he would upon a ...
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... painful Artificer ? But many of this excellent Character are overlooked by the greater Num- ber ; who affect covering a weak Place in a Client's Title , diverting the Courfe of an Enquiry , or finding a skilful Refuge to palliate a ...
... painful Artificer ? But many of this excellent Character are overlooked by the greater Num- ber ; who affect covering a weak Place in a Client's Title , diverting the Courfe of an Enquiry , or finding a skilful Refuge to palliate a ...
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... Pains which are taken to fully it , or diffufe it among a Crowd to the Injury of a fingle Perfon , will naturally produce the contrary Effect ; the Fire will blaze out , and burn up all that attempt to fmother what they cannot ex ...
... Pains which are taken to fully it , or diffufe it among a Crowd to the Injury of a fingle Perfon , will naturally produce the contrary Effect ; the Fire will blaze out , and burn up all that attempt to fmother what they cannot ex ...
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... Pain , left a Foreigner fhould carry away the Honour of the Day ; but upon a further Tryal they found he was Mafter only of the merry Grinn . THE next that mounted the Table was a Malecontent in those Days , and a great Mafter in the ...
... Pain , left a Foreigner fhould carry away the Honour of the Day ; but upon a further Tryal they found he was Mafter only of the merry Grinn . THE next that mounted the Table was a Malecontent in those Days , and a great Mafter in the ...
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Seite 181 - ... a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance.
Seite 40 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Seite 181 - Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Seite 277 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters.
Seite 183 - ... nations of which I have been here speaking ; as those who have had the advantages of a more liberal education rise above one another by several different degrees of perfection.
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 - Applications which are so much in practice among us, are for the most part nothing else but Expedients to make Luxury consistent with Health. The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.
Seite 164 - ... as fast as we attain them ? Our case is like that of a traveller upon the Alps, who should fancy that the top of the next hill must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect ; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before.
Seite 40 - As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me...
Seite 182 - And what colour of excuse can there be for the contempt with which we treat this part of our species ? that we should not put them upon the common foot of humanity; that we should only set an insignificant fine upon the man who murders them ; nay, that we should as much as in us lies, cut them off...