The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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... mankind who are known by the name of Womens - men , or Beaus , & c . MR . SPECTATOR , you are sensible these pretty gentlemen are not made for any manly em- ployments , and for want of business , are often as much in the vapours as the ...
... mankind who are known by the name of Womens - men , or Beaus , & c . MR . SPECTATOR , you are sensible these pretty gentlemen are not made for any manly em- ployments , and for want of business , are often as much in the vapours as the ...
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... mankind are not so grossly ignorant , as some over - bearing spirits would persuade themselves ; and if the authority of a character , or a caution against danger , make us suppress our opinion , yet neither of these are of force enough ...
... mankind are not so grossly ignorant , as some over - bearing spirits would persuade themselves ; and if the authority of a character , or a caution against danger , make us suppress our opinion , yet neither of these are of force enough ...
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... mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy , would prefer the share they are al- ready possessed of , before that which would fall ...
... mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy , would prefer the share they are al- ready possessed of , before that which would fall ...
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... mankind had thus cast their burdens , the Phantom , which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle spectator of what passed , approached towards me . I grew uneasy at her presence , when of a sudden she held her mag ...
... mankind had thus cast their burdens , the Phantom , which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle spectator of what passed , approached towards me . I grew uneasy at her presence , when of a sudden she held her mag ...
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... mankind , people being naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them . There is one kind of egotists which is very common in the world , though I do not re- member that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean ...
... mankind , people being naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them . There is one kind of egotists which is very common in the world , though I do not re- member that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean ...
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Page 80 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 221 - ... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 221 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 214 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 2 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Page 231 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 196 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 64 - I did not question came loaded with his crimes; but upon searching into his bundle I found that instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory.
Page 458 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 79 - ... material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.