The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the hap- piness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to ...
... able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the hap- piness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to ...
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... able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the hap- piness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to ...
... able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the hap- piness of possessing also those qualities which make a man useful to ...
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... able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were concerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform the reader , that no other papers which have appeared under the title of ...
... able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were concerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform the reader , that no other papers which have appeared under the title of ...
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... able to tell me something , for I think myself highly obliged to make his fortune , as he has mine . It is very possible your worship , who has spies all over this town , can inform me how to send to him . If you can , I beseech you be ...
... able to tell me something , for I think myself highly obliged to make his fortune , as he has mine . It is very possible your worship , who has spies all over this town , can inform me how to send to him . If you can , I beseech you be ...
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... able objects , and how much we owe it to ourselves that we should appear so . * 66 We considered man as belonging to societies ; societies as formed of different ranks distinguished by habits , that all proper duty and respect might ...
... able objects , and how much we owe it to ourselves that we should appear so . * 66 We considered man as belonging to societies ; societies as formed of different ranks distinguished by habits , that all proper duty and respect might ...
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Strona 36 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Strona 296 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
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Strona 427 - ... 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.
Strona 189 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Strona 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Strona 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Strona 304 - 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.