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... her with an estate of five thousand a year ? It is very pleasant , on this occasion , to hear the lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice which is in 16 THE SPECTATOR .
... her with an estate of five thousand a year ? It is very pleasant , on this occasion , to hear the lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice which is in 16 THE SPECTATOR .
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... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in these schools of politics , where , after the three ...
... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in these schools of politics , where , after the three ...
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... hear , I seem to move , And wander through the happy grove , Where smooth springs flow , and murm'ring breeze Wantons through the waving trees . HOR . CREECH . HAVING lately read your essay on the plea- sures of the imagination , I was ...
... hear , I seem to move , And wander through the happy grove , Where smooth springs flow , and murm'ring breeze Wantons through the waving trees . HOR . CREECH . HAVING lately read your essay on the plea- sures of the imagination , I was ...
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... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and when they run over his head he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to the ...
... hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and when they run over his head he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he thinks it doubles his attention to the ...
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... hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing in our ears to cover their own follies and miscarriages ...
... hear so often repeated the word prerogative . That part of your law which is reserved in yourself for the readier service and good of the public , slight men are eternally buzzing in our ears to cover their own follies and miscarriages ...
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Page 158 - Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial spirits in bondage, nor the abyss Long under darkness cover.
Page 307 - 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 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 306 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 308 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 76 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 78 - My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Page 69 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 99 - If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Page 261 - When you glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you can : for even yet will he far exceed. And when you exalt him, put forth all your strength and be not weary; for you can never go far enough.
Page 100 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another, and by which mankind are knit together in a general correspondence. They are like the pegs and nails in a great building, which, though they are but little valued in themselves, are absolutely necessary to keep the whole frame together.