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... what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kind- ness imaginable do commonly pass in current pay- ment ; and when he should come to understand it , it would be a great while before he could bring himself 14 THE SPECTATOR .
... what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kind- ness imaginable do commonly pass in current pay- ment ; and when he should come to understand it , it would be a great while before he could bring himself 14 THE SPECTATOR .
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... kind of lie a compli ment ; for when they are civil to a great man , they tell him untruths , for which thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to receive an hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negociate any ...
... kind of lie a compli ment ; for when they are civil to a great man , they tell him untruths , for which thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to receive an hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negociate any ...
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... kind of a fellow , I stuck my cane in the ground , and told him I would lay him a bottle of wine , that he did not march up to it on a line , that I drew for him , in a quarter of an hour . The heap was at last distributed among two ...
... kind of a fellow , I stuck my cane in the ground , and told him I would lay him a bottle of wine , that he did not march up to it on a line , that I drew for him , in a quarter of an hour . The heap was at last distributed among two ...
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... kind of evils which fell to his lot . Besides the several pieces of morality to be drawn out of this vision , I learned from it , never to repine at my own misfortunes , or to envy the happiness of another , since it is impossible for ...
... kind of evils which fell to his lot . Besides the several pieces of morality to be drawn out of this vision , I learned from it , never to repine at my own misfortunes , or to envy the happiness of another , since it is impossible for ...
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... kind of egoists which is very common in the world , though I do not remember that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean those empty conceited fellows who repeat as sayings of their own , or some of their particular friends , seve ...
... kind of egoists which is very common in the world , though I do not remember that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean those empty conceited fellows who repeat as sayings of their own , or some of their particular friends , seve ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted agreeable appear battle of Blenheim beautiful Blank body cacoethes Cæsar Cicero consider conversation creature daugh delight Dervise desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king lady letter light ligion lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbours ness never night nity observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch present pretty racter reader reason received says secret Shalum shew short soul speak Spectator tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told Trophonius truth ture VIII VIRG virtue Waitfort WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 285 - 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 267 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 18 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Seite 20 - One little packet I could not but take notice of, which was a complication of all the diseases incident to human nature, and was in the hand of a great many fine people ; this was called the spleen. But what most of all surprised me, was a remark I made, that there was not a single vice or folly thrown into the whole heap...
Seite 20 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length ; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face.
Seite 23 - My friend with a long visage had no sooner taken upon him my short face, but he made such a grotesque figure in it, that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself, insomuch that I put my own face out of countenance. The poor gentleman was so sensible of the ridicule, that I found he was ashamed of what he had done ; on the other side, I found that I myself had no great reason to triumph, for as I went to touch my forehead, I missed the place, and clapped my finger upon my upper...
Seite 47 - 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 43 - ... till the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Seite 44 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other; as it is possible there may be such a sense in ourselves hereafter, or in creatures which are at present more exalted than ourselves.
Seite 44 - In the same manner when I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns ; when 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...