The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 - English essays |
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... thoughts hang at best in a state of doubtfulness and uncer- tainty ; and are never capable of receiving any satis- faction on the advantageous side ; so that his inquiries are most successful when they discover nothing . His pleasure ...
... thoughts hang at best in a state of doubtfulness and uncer- tainty ; and are never capable of receiving any satis- faction on the advantageous side ; so that his inquiries are most successful when they discover nothing . His pleasure ...
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... thoughts must be em- ployed on another ; and if sad , she is certainly thinking on himself . In short , there is no word or gesture so insignificant , but it gives him new hints , feeds his suspicions , and furnishes him with fresh ...
... thoughts must be em- ployed on another ; and if sad , she is certainly thinking on himself . In short , there is no word or gesture so insignificant , but it gives him new hints , feeds his suspicions , and furnishes him with fresh ...
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... thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites de- sire , and loses all the shame and horror which might at first attend it . Nor is it a wonder if she who suffers wrongfully in a ...
... thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites de- sire , and loses all the shame and horror which might at first attend it . Nor is it a wonder if she who suffers wrongfully in a ...
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... thoughts upon their wives . A second sort of men , who are most liable to this passion , are those of cunning , wary , and ... thought . They put a construction on a look , and find out a design in a smile ; they give new senses and ...
... thoughts upon their wives . A second sort of men , who are most liable to this passion , are those of cunning , wary , and ... thought . They put a construction on a look , and find out a design in a smile ; they give new senses and ...
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... thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not consider the kindness that produced them , and therefore represented him in her imagina → tion , rather under the frightful idea of a murderer than a ...
... thoughts were so wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not consider the kindness that produced them , and therefore represented him in her imagina → tion , rather under the frightful idea of a murderer than a ...
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Page 273 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Page 45 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 45 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 45 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Page 46 - If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him : (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul...
Page 111 - The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, the man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Page 384 - One of our kings,* said my friend, carried his royal inclination a little too far, and there was a committee ordered to look into the . management of his treasury. Among other things it appeared, that his majesty walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, " Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world.
Page 142 - ... many thousands of their sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent freedoms to ruin and infamy ; and how many millions of ours have begun with flatteries, protestations, and endearments, but ended with reproaches, perjury, and perfidiousness : they would shun like death the very first approaches of one that might lead them into inextricable labyrinths of guilt and misery.
Page 45 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 204 - ... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.