The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volum 2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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Pàgina 43
... honour and honefty ; preferring the capacity of being . artful to gain their ends , to the merit of defpifing thofe ends when they come in competition with their honesty . All this is due to the very filly pride that generally prevails ...
... honour and honefty ; preferring the capacity of being . artful to gain their ends , to the merit of defpifing thofe ends when they come in competition with their honesty . All this is due to the very filly pride that generally prevails ...
Pàgina 62
... honour are engaged . When we look into the bottom of things , what at firft appears a paradox , is a plain truth ; and thofe profeffions which for want of being duly weighed , feem to proceed from a fort of romantic philofophy , and ...
... honour are engaged . When we look into the bottom of things , what at firft appears a paradox , is a plain truth ; and thofe profeffions which for want of being duly weighed , feem to proceed from a fort of romantic philofophy , and ...
Pàgina 63
... honour , were made to his own foul , there would be a basis and standing rule for our conduct , and we fhould always ... honours , will eafily lofe their charms , if they ftand between us and our integrity . What is here faid with ...
... honour , were made to his own foul , there would be a basis and standing rule for our conduct , and we fhould always ... honours , will eafily lofe their charms , if they ftand between us and our integrity . What is here faid with ...
Pàgina 70
... honour , and morality , and take from us the only comforts and fupports of affliction , fickness and old age . The minds therefore which they fet at eafe , are only thofe of impenitent criminals and malefactors , and which , to the good ...
... honour , and morality , and take from us the only comforts and fupports of affliction , fickness and old age . The minds therefore which they fet at eafe , are only thofe of impenitent criminals and malefactors , and which , to the good ...
Pàgina 71
... honour of the notice of our laws , which ought not to fuppofe there are fuch crim- inals in being , I have often wondered how they can be tolerated in any mixt converfations while they are venting thefe abfurd opinions ; and fhould ...
... honour of the notice of our laws , which ought not to fuppofe there are fuch crim- inals in being , I have often wondered how they can be tolerated in any mixt converfations while they are venting thefe abfurd opinions ; and fhould ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Pàgina 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Pàgina 146 - 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.
Pàgina 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Pàgina 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Pàgina 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Pàgina 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Pàgina 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Pàgina 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pàgina 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.