The Spectator, Band 8Tonson, 1739 |
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... Correspondents . MY Well - wisher Van Nath is very arch , but not : quite enough fo to appear in Print . PHILADELPHUS will , in a little time , fee his Query fully anfwered by a Treatife which is now in the Prefs . IT was very improper ...
... Correspondents . MY Well - wisher Van Nath is very arch , but not : quite enough fo to appear in Print . PHILADELPHUS will , in a little time , fee his Query fully anfwered by a Treatife which is now in the Prefs . IT was very improper ...
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... Correspondents have been pleased to fend me an Account how they have been employ- ed in Sleep , and what notable Adventures they have been engaged in during that Moonshine in the Brain . I fhall lay before my Readers an Abridgement of ...
... Correspondents have been pleased to fend me an Account how they have been employ- ed in Sleep , and what notable Adventures they have been engaged in during that Moonshine in the Brain . I fhall lay before my Readers an Abridgement of ...
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... Correspondent there- fore confider , that the Gentlemen recommended will have a good deal of her own Face in two or three Years ; which the must not expect from the Beau , who is too full of his dear felf to copy after another . And I ...
... Correspondent there- fore confider , that the Gentlemen recommended will have a good deal of her own Face in two or three Years ; which the must not expect from the Beau , who is too full of his dear felf to copy after another . And I ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 271 - ... 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.
Seite 104 - 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.
Seite 48 - ... In the second place, he is Omniscient as well as Omnipresent. His Omniscience indeed necessarily and naturally flows from his Omnipresence ; he cannot but be conscious of every motion that arises in the whole material world, which he thus essentially pervades...
Seite 49 - ... regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion ; for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...
Seite 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Seite 22 - I saw multitudes of old women throw down their wrinkles, and several young ones who stripped themselves of a tawny skin.
Seite 22 - I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.
Seite 297 - Creator, and with slow and painful steps creep up and down on the surface of this globe, shall ere long shoot away with the swiftness of imagination, trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations, be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career, be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds...
Seite 83 - Would not he think that we are a species of beings made for quite different ends and purposes than what we really are ? Must not he imagine that we were placed in this world to get riches and honours ? Would...
Seite 26 - 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.