The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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... father was a zealous divine of the Church of England , and , it is said , might have had a bishopric had he not opposed the latitudinarian policy of King William and Archbishop Tillotson . However that may be , the son , Joseph , who is ...
... father was a zealous divine of the Church of England , and , it is said , might have had a bishopric had he not opposed the latitudinarian policy of King William and Archbishop Tillotson . However that may be , the son , Joseph , who is ...
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... father he enjoyed a handsome competence . But his temper was unamiable and violent . He quarrelled with the Irish Secre- tary , and did not even hesitate to attack the Lord Lieutenant . Budgell was dismissed from his office , and ...
... father he enjoyed a handsome competence . But his temper was unamiable and violent . He quarrelled with the Irish Secre- tary , and did not even hesitate to attack the Lord Lieutenant . Budgell was dismissed from his office , and ...
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... father of a family , and a respectable merchant , in his fifty - eighth year he was found dead in a house of bad character . He dedicated his poem " On Tea , " to THE SPECTATOR , and Steele , in No. 552 , gives a description of his ...
... father of a family , and a respectable merchant , in his fifty - eighth year he was found dead in a house of bad character . He dedicated his poem " On Tea , " to THE SPECTATOR , and Steele , in No. 552 , gives a description of his ...
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... father to son , whole and entire , without the loss or acquisition of a single field or meadow , during the space of ... father's being a justice of the peace , I cannot determine ; for I am not so vain as to think VOL . I. B it presaged ...
... father to son , whole and entire , without the loss or acquisition of a single field or meadow , during the space of ... father's being a justice of the peace , I cannot determine ; for I am not so vain as to think VOL . I. B it presaged ...
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... father I was resolved to travel into foreign countries , and therefore left the university with the character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after know ...
... father I was resolved to travel into foreign countries , and therefore left the university with the character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but show it . An insatiable thirst after know ...
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Page 306 - 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 306 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place ; and that he...
Page 422 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer ; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mixt with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Page 290 - Greek at his own table, for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the University to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. My friend...
Page 12 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Page 306 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then inquires...
Page 303 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at...
Page 307 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and...
Page 32 - 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 coffee-houses.
Page 283 - In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.