The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., المجلدات 11-121853 |
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... greatest obligations we have to you . I do assure you there is not one of your friends , has a greater sense of your merit in general , and of the favours you every day do us , than , sir , Your most obedient , And most humble servant ...
... greatest obligations we have to you . I do assure you there is not one of your friends , has a greater sense of your merit in general , and of the favours you every day do us , than , sir , Your most obedient , And most humble servant ...
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... ambition into a right channel . I claim to myself the merit of having extorted excellent productions from a person of the greatest abilities , who would not have let them appear by any other means : * to have THE SPECTATOR. ...
... ambition into a right channel . I claim to myself the merit of having extorted excellent productions from a person of the greatest abilities , who would not have let them appear by any other means : * to have THE SPECTATOR. ...
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... greatest men of the age . ' This so sensibly stung them , that they gladly compounded to throw their cards into the fire if he would his paper , and so a conversation ensued fit for such persons . This story pressed so hard upon the ...
... greatest men of the age . ' This so sensibly stung them , that they gladly compounded to throw their cards into the fire if he would his paper , and so a conversation ensued fit for such persons . This story pressed so hard upon the ...
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... greatest equanimity , the ignorant with the greatest concern ? Does it not seem that those minds which have the most ex- tensive views , foresee they are removing to a hap- pier condition , which those of a narrow sight do not perceive ...
... greatest equanimity , the ignorant with the greatest concern ? Does it not seem that those minds which have the most ex- tensive views , foresee they are removing to a hap- pier condition , which those of a narrow sight do not perceive ...
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... greatest part of them were not sincerely designed to discountenance vice and ignorance , and support the interest of true wisdom and virtue , I should be more severe upon myself than the public is disposed to be . In the meanwhile , 1 ...
... greatest part of them were not sincerely designed to discountenance vice and ignorance , and support the interest of true wisdom and virtue , I should be more severe upon myself than the public is disposed to be . In the meanwhile , 1 ...
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الصفحة 203 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 54 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
الصفحة 11 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 52 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
الصفحة 184 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 216 - On the contrary, foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost than what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than themselves, rather than on those who are under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and...
الصفحة 46 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last.
الصفحة 247 - 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. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
الصفحة 172 - In proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, until the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
الصفحة 142 - What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ?" was the result of a laudable ambition.