The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 52
... lives , fays he , are spent either in doing nothing at all , or in doing no- thing to the purpofe , or in doing nothing that we ought to do : We are always complaining our days are few , and acting as though there would be no end of ...
... lives , fays he , are spent either in doing nothing at all , or in doing no- thing to the purpofe , or in doing nothing that we ought to do : We are always complaining our days are few , and acting as though there would be no end of ...
Page 53
... lives that it ran much fafter than it does . Several hours of the day hang up- on our hands , nay we wish away whole years ; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty waftes , which we would fain hurry ...
... lives that it ran much fafter than it does . Several hours of the day hang up- on our hands , nay we wish away whole years ; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty waftes , which we would fain hurry ...
Page 54
... lives under an habitual fenfe of the divine prefence keeps up a perpetual chearfulness of tem- per , and enjoys every moment the fatisfaction of think- ing himself in company with his dearest and beft of friends . The time never lies ...
... lives under an habitual fenfe of the divine prefence keeps up a perpetual chearfulness of tem- per , and enjoys every moment the fatisfaction of think- ing himself in company with his dearest and beft of friends . The time never lies ...
Page 56
... , and the purfuits of know- ledge , are long but not tedious , and by that means difcover a method of lengthening our lives , and at the the fame time of turning all the parts of them 56 N ° 94 THE SPECTATOR . N° 94 ...
... , and the purfuits of know- ledge , are long but not tedious , and by that means difcover a method of lengthening our lives , and at the the fame time of turning all the parts of them 56 N ° 94 THE SPECTATOR . N° 94 ...
Page 64
... live in fervitude , I have the vanity to fay I have felt to my woful experience . You attribute very jully the fource of our general iniquity to board - wages , and the man- ner of living out of a domeftick way : But I cannot give you ...
... live in fervitude , I have the vanity to fay I have felt to my woful experience . You attribute very jully the fource of our general iniquity to board - wages , and the man- ner of living out of a domeftick way : But I cannot give you ...
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