The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... tion of that , which he himself wants , inflames him more , as it shews that in some respects you prefer others before him . Jealousy is admirably described in this view by Horace in his ode to Lydia : • Quum tu , Lydia , Telephi ...
... tion of that , which he himself wants , inflames him more , as it shews that in some respects you prefer others before him . Jealousy is admirably described in this view by Horace in his ode to Lydia : • Quum tu , Lydia , Telephi ...
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... tion she still had for her lord . Her thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not consider the kindness that produced them , and therefore represented him in her imagina → tion , rather under ...
... tion she still had for her lord . Her thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not consider the kindness that produced them , and therefore represented him in her imagina → tion , rather under ...
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... tion among the common people of out - grinning one another , that many very discerning persons are afraid it should spoil most of the faces in the county ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grin , as Roman catholics ...
... tion among the common people of out - grinning one another , that many very discerning persons are afraid it should spoil most of the faces in the county ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grin , as Roman catholics ...
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... tion . The whole company stood astonished at such a complicated grin , and were ready to assign the prize to him , had it not been proved by one of his antagonists , that he had practised with verjuice for some days before , and had a ...
... tion . The whole company stood astonished at such a complicated grin , and were ready to assign the prize to him , had it not been proved by one of his antagonists , that he had practised with verjuice for some days before , and had a ...
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... tion is for ever fixed upon balancing his books , and watching over his expences ? And at best , let fruga- lity and parsimony be the virtues of the merchant , how much is his punctual dealing below a gentle- man's charity to the poor ...
... tion is for ever fixed upon balancing his books , and watching over his expences ? And at best , let fruga- lity and parsimony be the virtues of the merchant , how much is his punctual dealing below a gentle- man's charity to the poor ...
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Seite 273 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Seite 45 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 45 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Seite 45 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Seite 46 - If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him : (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul...
Seite 111 - The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, the man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Seite 384 - One of our kings,* said my friend, carried his royal inclination a little too far, and there was a committee ordered to look into the . management of his treasury. Among other things it appeared, that his majesty walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, " Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world.
Seite 142 - ... many thousands of their sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent freedoms to ruin and infamy ; and how many millions of ours have begun with flatteries, protestations, and endearments, but ended with reproaches, perjury, and perfidiousness : they would shun like death the very first approaches of one that might lead them into inextricable labyrinths of guilt and misery.
Seite 45 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Seite 204 - ... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.