The Spectator, Volume 3George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1897 |
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... Actions of the suspected Person , and at the same time Sept. 14 , shews you have no honourable Opinion of her ; both of which are strong Motives to Aversion . Nor is this the worst Effect of Jealousie ; for it often draws after it a ...
... Actions of the suspected Person , and at the same time Sept. 14 , shews you have no honourable Opinion of her ; both of which are strong Motives to Aversion . Nor is this the worst Effect of Jealousie ; for it often draws after it a ...
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... Action from some Plot and Contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual Scheme of Causes and Events , and preserving a ... Actions ; and are ever tormenting themselves with Fancies of their own raising : They generally act in a Disguise ...
... Action from some Plot and Contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual Scheme of Causes and Events , and preserving a ... Actions ; and are ever tormenting themselves with Fancies of their own raising : They generally act in a Disguise ...
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George Gregory Smith. female Action ; and especially where they see any Re- No. 170 . semblance in the Behaviour of two Persons , are apt to Friday , Sept. 14 , fancy it proceeds from the same Design in both . These 1711 Men therefore ...
George Gregory Smith. female Action ; and especially where they see any Re- No. 170 . semblance in the Behaviour of two Persons , are apt to Friday , Sept. 14 , fancy it proceeds from the same Design in both . These 1711 Men therefore ...
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... Actions , to unravel all your Designs , and discover every Secret however trifling or indifferent . A jealous Husband has a particular Aversion to Winks and Whispers , and if he does not see to the Bottom of every thing , will be sure ...
... Actions , to unravel all your Designs , and discover every Secret however trifling or indifferent . A jealous Husband has a particular Aversion to Winks and Whispers , and if he does not see to the Bottom of every thing , will be sure ...
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... Action , he quickly suspects all the rest ; his working Imagination immediately takes a false hint , and runs off with it into several remote Consequences , till he has proved very ingenious in working out his own Misery . If both these ...
... Action , he quickly suspects all the rest ; his working Imagination immediately takes a false hint , and runs off with it into several remote Consequences , till he has proved very ingenious in working out his own Misery . If both these ...
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Page 175 - only finds it What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to an Human SouL The Philosopher, the Saint, or the Hero, the Wise, the Good, or the Great Man, very often lie hid and concealed in a Plebean, which a proper Education might have disenterred, and have brought to Light
Page 160 - Lord Cardinal/ if thou think'st on Heaven's Bliss Hold up thy Hand, make Signal of that Hope! He dies, and makes no Sign ! The Despair which is here shewn, without a Word or Action on the Part of the dying Person, is beyond what
Page 174 - If my Reader will give me leave to change the Allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same Instance to illustrate the Force of Education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Sub/ stantial Forms, when he tells us, that a Statue lies hid in
Page 211 - Minds« Discretion points out the noblest Ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable Methods of attaining them; Cunning has only private selfish Aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed« Discretion has large and extended Views, and, like a well/formed Eye, commands a whole
Page 35 - in that one Sentence/ says he, 'than in a library of Sermons ; and indeed if those Sentences were understood by the Reader, with the same Emphasis as they are delivered by the Author, we needed not those Volumes of Instructions, but might be honest by an Epitome/ ' Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred
Page 210 - some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in Words, This sort of Discretion, however, has no Place in private Conversation between intimate Friends, On such Occasions the wisest Men very often Talk like the weakest; for indeed the Talking with a Friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Page 174 - I CONSIDER an Human Soul without Education like Marble in the Quarry, which shews none of its inherent Beauties, till the Skill of the Polisher fetches out the Colours, makes the Surface shine, and discovers every ornamental Cloud, Spot and Vein that runs thro' the Body of it Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble Mind, draws out to
Page 36 - when evil found him, Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his souL The stranger did not lodge in the street/ but I opened my doors to the traveller, If my land
Page 212 - Cunning is often to be met with in Brutes themselves, and in Persons who are but the fewest Removes from them* In short, Cunning is only the Mimick of Discretion, and may pass upon weak Men, in the same manner as Vivacity is often mistaken for Wit, and Gravity for Wisdom/
Page 212 - is the Perfection of Reason, and a Guide to us in all the Duties of Life ; Cunning is a kind of Instinct, that only looks out after our immediate Interest and Welfare* Discretion is only found in Men of strong Sense and good Understandings