A selection of passages from the Spectator for translation into Latin prose, ed. by J.R. MajorJohn Richardson Major 1858 - 185 من الصفحات |
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... love . Love always gives something to the object it delights in , and anger spoils the person against whom it is moved of something laudable in him : from this degeneracy , therefore , and a sort of 2 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION .
... love . Love always gives something to the object it delights in , and anger spoils the person against whom it is moved of something laudable in him : from this degeneracy , therefore , and a sort of 2 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION .
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... arriving at greater degrees of perfection as long as you live , and appear more delightful in every succeeding year than they did in the foregoing . XI . Jupiter , says the mythologist , to reward 4 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION .
... arriving at greater degrees of perfection as long as you live , and appear more delightful in every succeeding year than they did in the foregoing . XI . Jupiter , says the mythologist , to reward 4 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION .
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... delight , and destroy in our minds the seeds of fortitude and virtue , which should support us in hours of anguish . The constant pursuit of pleasure has in it something insolent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober ...
... delight , and destroy in our minds the seeds of fortitude and virtue , which should support us in hours of anguish . The constant pursuit of pleasure has in it something insolent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober ...
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... delighted with reading the accounts of savage nations , and with contem- plating those virtues which are wild and uncultivated ; to see courage exerting itself in fierceness , resolution in obstinacy , wisdom in cunning , patience in ...
... delighted with reading the accounts of savage nations , and with contem- plating those virtues which are wild and uncultivated ; to see courage exerting itself in fierceness , resolution in obstinacy , wisdom in cunning , patience in ...
الصفحة 25
... delight ; and the son fears the accession of his father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends ...
... delight ; and the son fears the accession of his father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends ...
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الصفحة 7 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
الصفحة 161 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity are all concerned in this point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it; which is a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved by others, who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with it.
الصفحة 130 - There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
الصفحة 137 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 28 - ... the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being.
الصفحة 28 - I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is, by securing to myself the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity. He sees, at one view, the whole thread...
الصفحة 8 - ... of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge ; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater degrees of resemblance.
الصفحة 13 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
الصفحة 28 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to His care : when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to Him for help, and question not but He will avert them, or turn them to my advantage.
الصفحة 21 - A person who believes he has his succour at hand, and that he acts in the sight of his friend, often exerts himself beyond his abilities ; and does wonders, that are not to be matched by one who is not animated with such a confidence of success.