The Spectator, Band 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... virtue and eloquence . I shall not dwell upon it any further , but only transcribe out of a little tract , called the Christian Hero , published in 1701 , what I find there in ho- nour of the renowned hero , William III . who rescued ...
... virtue and eloquence . I shall not dwell upon it any further , but only transcribe out of a little tract , called the Christian Hero , published in 1701 , what I find there in ho- nour of the renowned hero , William III . who rescued ...
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... virtues , but really be master of none ; he is to be liberal , merciful , and just , only as they serve his interests ; while , with the noble art of hypocrisy , empire would be to ... virtue , and gild his vice at 16 No. 516 . SPECTATOR .
... virtues , but really be master of none ; he is to be liberal , merciful , and just , only as they serve his interests ; while , with the noble art of hypocrisy , empire would be to ... virtue , and gild his vice at 16 No. 516 . SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. they flatter his virtue , and gild his vice at so high a rate , that he , without scorn of the one , or love of the other , would alternately and occasion- ally use both ; so that his bounty should support him in his ...
Alexander Chalmers. they flatter his virtue , and gild his vice at so high a rate , that he , without scorn of the one , or love of the other , would alternately and occasion- ally use both ; so that his bounty should support him in his ...
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... virtue , to me . ' I curb myself , and will not tell you that this kindness cut my heart in twain , when I expected an accusation for some passionate starts of mine in some parts of our time together , to say nothing but thank me for ...
... virtue , to me . ' I curb myself , and will not tell you that this kindness cut my heart in twain , when I expected an accusation for some passionate starts of mine in some parts of our time together , to say nothing but thank me for ...
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... virtue in the hour of affliction . I sat down with a design to put you upon giving us rules how to overcome such griefs as these , but I should rather advise you to teach men to be capable of them . ' You men of letters have what you ...
... virtue in the hour of affliction . I sat down with a design to put you upon giving us rules how to overcome such griefs as these , but I should rather advise you to teach men to be capable of them . ' You men of letters have what you ...
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Seite 139 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Seite 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Seite 254 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Seite 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Seite 139 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Seite 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Seite 223 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind.
Seite 88 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Seite 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.