The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... truth of this saying , when I saw the difference between the weight of Natural Parts and that of Learning . The observations which I made upon these two weights opened to me a new field of discoveries ; for , notwithstanding the weight ...
... truth of this saying , when I saw the difference between the weight of Natural Parts and that of Learning . The observations which I made upon these two weights opened to me a new field of discoveries ; for , notwithstanding the weight ...
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... truth , who is always in a battle , or a triumph . ' If we regard poverty and wealth , as they are apt to produce virtues or vices in the mind of man , one may observe that there is a set of each of these growing out of poverty , quite ...
... truth , who is always in a battle , or a triumph . ' If we regard poverty and wealth , as they are apt to produce virtues or vices in the mind of man , one may observe that there is a set of each of these growing out of poverty , quite ...
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... truths , and the next meet with some- thing that shakes and disturbs them . The doubt which was laid revives again ... truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without determining ourselves one way or ...
... truths , and the next meet with some- thing that shakes and disturbs them . The doubt which was laid revives again ... truth , so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without determining ourselves one way or ...
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... truth of any article , and of the reasonableness of our belief in it , we should never after suffer our- selves to call it in question . We may perhaps forget the arguments which occasioned our conviction , but we ought to remember the ...
... truth of any article , and of the reasonableness of our belief in it , we should never after suffer our- selves to call it in question . We may perhaps forget the arguments which occasioned our conviction , but we ought to remember the ...
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... truth of religion , who finds it is not against his interest that it should be true . The pleasure he receives at present , and the happi- ness which he promises himself from it hereafter , will both dispose him very powerfully to give ...
... truth of religion , who finds it is not against his interest that it should be true . The pleasure he receives at present , and the happi- ness which he promises himself from it hereafter , will both dispose him very powerfully to give ...
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Page 22 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Page 378 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 378 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Page 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have, than to be without; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the supreme being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Page 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.