The Spectator: Selected PapersG.P. Putnam, 1876 - 276 Seiten |
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... actions , show us what we are and what we are not , play the whole game of human life over before us , and by making us enlightened spectators of its many - colored scenes , en- able us , if possible , to become tolerably reasonable ...
... actions , show us what we are and what we are not , play the whole game of human life over before us , and by making us enlightened spectators of its many - colored scenes , en- able us , if possible , to become tolerably reasonable ...
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... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of business . The person of next consideration is ...
... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of business . The person of next consideration is ...
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... action of any importance is to have a prospect of public good : and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agree- able to the dictates of reason , of religion , of good - breed- ing ; without this , a man , as ...
... action of any importance is to have a prospect of public good : and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agree- able to the dictates of reason , of religion , of good - breed- ing ; without this , a man , as ...
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... actions , when we think ourselves most alone : but instead of terrifying myself with such a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always engaged with such an innumerable society , in searching out the wonders of the ...
... actions , when we think ourselves most alone : but instead of terrifying myself with such a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always engaged with such an innumerable society , in searching out the wonders of the ...
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... action nay , a good , a temperate , and a just man shall be put out of countenance by the representation of those qualities that should do him honour : -so pernicious a thing is wit , when it is not tempered with virtue and hu- manity ...
... action nay , a good , a temperate , and a just man shall be put out of countenance by the representation of those qualities that should do him honour : -so pernicious a thing is wit , when it is not tempered with virtue and hu- manity ...
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Seite 10 - I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom, but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. He is a clergyman, a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact good breeding.
Seite 1 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 6 - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Seite 6 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffeehouse, for calling him youngster.
Seite 20 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Seite 8 - He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst...
Seite 10 - This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn; and I find there is not one of the company but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well-bred fine gentleman. To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of, as one of our company...
Seite 19 - Since I have raised to myself so great an audience, I shall spare no pains to make their instruction agreeable, and their diversion useful. For which reasons I shall endeavour to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality, that my readers may, u possible, both ways find their account in the speculation of the day.
Seite 165 - Hypocrisy itself does great honour, or rather justice to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. We learn from Hierocles, it was a common saying among the heathens, that the wise man hates no body, but only loves the virtuous. Tully has a very beautiful gradation of thoughts to shew how...
Seite xvi - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...