The Spectator, 3. kötetW. Wilson, 1778 |
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2. oldal
... himself more friends , and fewer ene- mies . Your great abilities , and unqueftioned integrity , in those high employments which you have paffed through , would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation , had they ...
... himself more friends , and fewer ene- mies . Your great abilities , and unqueftioned integrity , in those high employments which you have paffed through , would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation , had they ...
12. oldal
... himself guilty of , or to admire any thing in which he himself does not excel . " A jealous man is very quick in his applications , he knows how to find a dou- ble edge in an invective , and to draw a fatire on himself out of a ...
... himself guilty of , or to admire any thing in which he himself does not excel . " A jealous man is very quick in his applications , he knows how to find a dou- ble edge in an invective , and to draw a fatire on himself out of a ...
13. oldal
... himself ; but the commendation of that , which he himself wants , inflames him more , as it fhews that in fome refpects you prefer others before him . Jealoufy is admirably defcribed in this view by Horace in his ode to Lydia . 1 Quum ...
... himself ; but the commendation of that , which he himself wants , inflames him more , as it fhews that in fome refpects you prefer others before him . Jealoufy is admirably defcribed in this view by Horace in his ode to Lydia . 1 Quum ...
14. oldal
... himself kept out of a fecret , will believe there is more in it than there fhould be . And here it is of great concern , that you preferve the character of your fincerity uniform and of a piece : for if he once finds a falfe glofs put ...
... himself kept out of a fecret , will believe there is more in it than there fhould be . And here it is of great concern , that you preferve the character of your fincerity uniform and of a piece : for if he once finds a falfe glofs put ...
15. oldal
... himself , and re- pine in private , either because he is fenfible it is a weak- nefs , and will therefore hide it from your knowledge , or because he will be apt to fear fome ill effect it may pro- duce , in cooling your love towards ...
... himself , and re- pine in private , either because he is fenfible it is a weak- nefs , and will therefore hide it from your knowledge , or because he will be apt to fear fome ill effect it may pro- duce , in cooling your love towards ...
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68. oldal - I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly; and I believe he will often find, that what he calls a zeal for his religion, is either pride, interest, or ill-nature.
183. oldal - ... human figure ; sometimes we see the man appearing distinctly in all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings.
197. oldal - This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach ; We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour : How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints...
218. oldal - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
207. oldal - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
41. oldal - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep...
213. oldal - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others ; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
89. oldal - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
104. oldal - It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger, had not he prevented him...
213. oldal - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...