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... reputation of the " Spectator " was justly earned and deserved ; and it only remains for me to say why I have made selections from it . As many essays were either local , obsolete , or too broad in language , and others dwelt too ...
... reputation of the " Spectator " was justly earned and deserved ; and it only remains for me to say why I have made selections from it . As many essays were either local , obsolete , or too broad in language , and others dwelt too ...
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... reputation of a very sullen youth , but was always a favorite of my schoolmaster , who used to say , " that my parts were solid , and would wear well . " I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most ...
... reputation of a very sullen youth , but was always a favorite of my schoolmaster , who used to say , " that my parts were solid , and would wear well . " I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most ...
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... reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue . But this unhappy affectation of being wise rather than honest , witty than good - natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to ...
... reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue . But this unhappy affectation of being wise rather than honest , witty than good - natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to ...
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... reputation of it from falling upon any particular person . You see an en- vious man clear up his countenance , if , in the relation of any man's great happiness in one point , you men- + tion his uneasiness in another . When he hears ...
... reputation of it from falling upon any particular person . You see an en- vious man clear up his countenance , if , in the relation of any man's great happiness in one point , you men- + tion his uneasiness in another . When he hears ...
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... reputation ; lampoons and satires , that are written with wit and spirit , are like poisoned darts , which not only inflict a wound , but make it incurable . For this reason I am very much troubled when I see the talents of humor and ...
... reputation ; lampoons and satires , that are written with wit and spirit , are like poisoned darts , which not only inflict a wound , but make it incurable . For this reason I am very much troubled when I see the talents of humor and ...
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Page 132 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 338 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page xiii - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 205 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 156 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a 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 plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Page 407 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page xx - A general Trader of good Sense is pleasanter Company than a general Scholar ;' and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected Eloquence, the Perspicuity of his Discourse gives the same Pleasure that Wit would in another Man. He has made his...
Page 361 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page xviii - ... his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Page 312 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.