The Spectator, Volume 5George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... Master in the Art , he never exerts it but on what he thinks the right Side . That this last Allusion may not give my Reader a wrong Idea of my Design in this Paper , I must here inform him , that the Author of it is of no Faction ...
... Master in the Art , he never exerts it but on what he thinks the right Side . That this last Allusion may not give my Reader a wrong Idea of my Design in this Paper , I must here inform him , that the Author of it is of no Faction ...
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... Master , The People , where I now am , have Tongues further from their Hearts than from London to Bantam , and thou knowest the Inhabitants of one of these Places does not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy Subjects ...
... Master , The People , where I now am , have Tongues further from their Hearts than from London to Bantam , and thou knowest the Inhabitants of one of these Places does not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy Subjects ...
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... that if I would apply my Mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a Master of the Political Scratch as any the most eminent Writer of the Age . I shall only add No. 567. add , that in order to outshine all THE SPECTATOR 43.
... that if I would apply my Mind to it , I might in a little time be as great a Master of the Political Scratch as any the most eminent Writer of the Age . I shall only add No. 567. add , that in order to outshine all THE SPECTATOR 43.
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... Master of the House accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a Discourse with him ; and talking of a certain great Man , who shall be name less , he told me , That he had sometimes the Honour to ...
... Master of the House accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into a Discourse with him ; and talking of a certain great Man , who shall be name less , he told me , That he had sometimes the Honour to ...
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... Master of the Tongs and Wednes Key , He told me that he had laid it down some Years day , July 21 , since , as a little unfashionable ; but that if I pleased he 1714 . would give me a Lesson upon the Gridiron . He then informed me that ...
... Master of the Tongs and Wednes Key , He told me that he had laid it down some Years day , July 21 , since , as a little unfashionable ; but that if I pleased he 1714 . would give me a Lesson upon the Gridiron . He then informed me that ...
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Page 237 - 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...
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Page 36 - ... circumference to one creature than another, according as we rise one above another in the scale of existence. But the widest of these our spheres has its circumference. When therefore we reflect on the Divine Nature, we are so used and accustomed to this imperfection in ourselves, that we cannot forbear, in some measure, ascribing it to Him in whom there is no shadow of imperfection. Our reason indeed assures us, that his attributes are infinite ; but the poorness of our conceptions is such,...
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Page 48 - Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
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