The SpectatorJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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... short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and cha- racter , as to let him see I am not altogether ...
... short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper . I have given the reader just so much of my history and cha- racter , as to let him see I am not altogether ...
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... short in such a year : in a word , all his conversa- tion and knowledge has been in the female world . As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion , he will tell you when the ...
... short in such a year : in a word , all his conversa- tion and knowledge has been in the female world . As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion , he will tell you when the ...
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... short account of myself , I must let you know , that the design of this paper is to give you information of a certain irregular assembly which I think falls very properly under your observation , especially since the persons it is ...
... short account of myself , I must let you know , that the design of this paper is to give you information of a certain irregular assembly which I think falls very properly under your observation , especially since the persons it is ...
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... short , the whole design of this libidi- nous assembly , seems to terminate in assignations and intrigues ; and I hope you will take effectual methods , by your public ad- vice and admonitions , to prevent such a promiscuous multitude ...
... short , the whole design of this libidi- nous assembly , seems to terminate in assignations and intrigues ; and I hope you will take effectual methods , by your public ad- vice and admonitions , to prevent such a promiscuous multitude ...
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Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. and statesmen that are out of business ; in short , every one that considers the world as a theatre , and desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set ...
Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. and statesmen that are out of business ; in short , every one that considers the world as a theatre , and desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set ...
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Page 42 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Page 305 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 48 - Shine not in vain; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise: Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 15 - ... has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man, he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that, it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes...
Page 7 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I nave acted in all the parts...
Page 205 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 287 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Page 2 - 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 a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.