The Spectator, Volym 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... happiness hereafter ? Why should we suppose that our hearing and seeing will not be gratified with those objects which are most agreeable to them , and which they cannot meet with in these lower regions of nature ; objects , which ...
... happiness hereafter ? Why should we suppose that our hearing and seeing will not be gratified with those objects which are most agreeable to them , and which they cannot meet with in these lower regions of nature ; objects , which ...
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... happiness or misery may depend upon the imagination ; of which truth those strange workings of fancy in sleep are no inconsidera- ble instances so that not only the advantage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to ...
... happiness or misery may depend upon the imagination ; of which truth those strange workings of fancy in sleep are no inconsidera- ble instances so that not only the advantage a man has of making discoveries of himself , but a regard to ...
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... happiness to know the person to whom it belongs . He then put into my hands a large crystal glass that inclosed an heart , in which , though I examined it with the utmost nicety , I could not perceive any blemish . I made no scruple to ...
... happiness to know the person to whom it belongs . He then put into my hands a large crystal glass that inclosed an heart , in which , though I examined it with the utmost nicety , I could not perceive any blemish . I made no scruple to ...
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... happiness or misery of his fellow - crea- tures . Suitably to this double capacity , the Contri- ver of human nature hath wisely furnished it with two principles of action , self - love and benevolence ; designed one of them to render ...
... happiness or misery of his fellow - crea- tures . Suitably to this double capacity , the Contri- ver of human nature hath wisely furnished it with two principles of action , self - love and benevolence ; designed one of them to render ...
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... happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay to invalidate this argument ; for , placing the gods in a state of the most elevated blessedness , they describe them as selfish as we poor ...
... happiness . The philoso- phers before - mentioned have indeed done all that in them lay to invalidate this argument ; for , placing the gods in a state of the most elevated blessedness , they describe them as selfish as we poor ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
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Sida 215 - 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.
Sida 17 - 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.
Sida 217 - ... 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.
Sida 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Sida 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Sida 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Sida 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Sida 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Sida 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Sida 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.