The Spectator, Band 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... existence to the uni- verse , and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated , without diminishing from the pleni- tude of his own power and happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in ...
... existence to the uni- verse , and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated , without diminishing from the pleni- tude of his own power and happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in ...
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... existence were not once actually present , consequently may be reached by a certain num- of years applied to it . We may ascend as high as lease and employ our being to that eternity which come , in adding millions of years to millions ...
... existence were not once actually present , consequently may be reached by a certain num- of years applied to it . We may ascend as high as lease and employ our being to that eternity which come , in adding millions of years to millions ...
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... existence , could not have existed from eternity . Fourthly , That this Eternal Being must therefore be the great Author of Nature , the Ancient of Days , who , being at an infinite distance in his perfections from all finite and ...
... existence , could not have existed from eternity . Fourthly , That this Eternal Being must therefore be the great Author of Nature , the Ancient of Days , who , being at an infinite distance in his perfections from all finite and ...
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... existence , is either past or to come to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven : Nothing is there to come , and nothing past , • But an eternal Now does always last . ' For my own part , I look upon these ...
... existence , is either past or to come to which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description of heaven : Nothing is there to come , and nothing past , • But an eternal Now does always last . ' For my own part , I look upon these ...
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... existence , as we call it , is pieced up of past , present , and to come . Such a flitting and successive existence is rather a shadow of existence , and some- thing which is like it , than existence itself . He only properly exists whose ...
... existence , as we call it , is pieced up of past , present , and to come . Such a flitting and successive existence is rather a shadow of existence , and some- thing which is like it , than existence itself . He only properly exists whose ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Seite 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Seite 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Seite 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Seite 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Seite 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.