The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Bände 9-101853 |
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... late life , and yet capable of resuscitation . I find my frame grown crazy with perpetual toil and meditation ; and I conjure you , as soon as I am dead , to anoint me with this un- guent ; and when you see me begin to move , pour into ...
... late life , and yet capable of resuscitation . I find my frame grown crazy with perpetual toil and meditation ; and I conjure you , as soon as I am dead , to anoint me with this un- guent ; and when you see me begin to move , pour into ...
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... , which is , that , as it is usual with old people , she has a livelier memory of things which passed when she was very young than of late years . Add to all this , that she does not only not love any body , 26 No. 427 . THE SPECTATOR .
... , which is , that , as it is usual with old people , she has a livelier memory of things which passed when she was very young than of late years . Add to all this , that she does not only not love any body , 26 No. 427 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... late noble inventor of the longitude , to the humble author of strops for razors . If to carry ships in safety , to give help to people tossed in a troubled sea , without knowing to what shores they bear , what rocks to avoid , or what ...
... late noble inventor of the longitude , to the humble author of strops for razors . If to carry ships in safety , to give help to people tossed in a troubled sea , without knowing to what shores they bear , what rocks to avoid , or what ...
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... late shake of the roof happened , only because a counsel of the other side asserted it was coming down . That he can not for his life consent to any thing . " That he stays in the infirmary to forget himself . That as soon as he has ...
... late shake of the roof happened , only because a counsel of the other side asserted it was coming down . That he can not for his life consent to any thing . " That he stays in the infirmary to forget himself . That as soon as he has ...
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... late invitation in one of your papers to every man who pleases to write , I have sent you the following short dissertation against . the vice of being prejudiced . Your most humble servant . ' ' Man is a sociable creature and a lover of ...
... late invitation in one of your papers to every man who pleases to write , I have sent you the following short dissertation against . the vice of being prejudiced . Your most humble servant . ' ' Man is a sociable creature and a lover of ...
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Seite 243 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Seite 91 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 249 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Seite 213 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 66 - How are Thy servants blest, O Lord How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, Omnipotence. 2 In foreign realms and lands remote, Supported by Thy care, Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air. 3...
Seite 91 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For Thou, O Lord, art with me still : Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Seite 227 - Alas, poor Yorick ! — I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand I times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now 1 your gambols ? your songs ? ' your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the.
Seite 67 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Seite 214 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Seite 205 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.