The Spectator, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... given you so much the clearer understanding . You may please to add this consideration , that among your equals no one values your anger , which only preys upon its master ; and perhaps you may find it not very consistent either with ...
... given you so much the clearer understanding . You may please to add this consideration , that among your equals no one values your anger , which only preys upon its master ; and perhaps you may find it not very consistent either with ...
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... a bill was brought in for the naturalization of foreign protestants ; which , on account of the odium raised against it , did not pass into a law . VOL . IV . D I had no sooner given up my former project , No. 200 . 37 SPECTATOR .
... a bill was brought in for the naturalization of foreign protestants ; which , on account of the odium raised against it , did not pass into a law . VOL . IV . D I had no sooner given up my former project , No. 200 . 37 SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. I had no sooner given up my former project , but my head was presently full of draining fens and marshes , banking out the sea , and joining new lands to my country ; for since it is thought im- practicable to ...
Alexander Chalmers. I had no sooner given up my former project , but my head was presently full of draining fens and marshes , banking out the sea , and joining new lands to my country ; for since it is thought im- practicable to ...
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... given us as the guide of all our actions . The two great errors into which a mistaken de- votion may betray us , are enthusiasm and super- stition . There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with a ...
... given us as the guide of all our actions . The two great errors into which a mistaken de- votion may betray us , are enthusiasm and super- stition . There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with a ...
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... given up to the management of those who are false and per- . fidious . ' That such masters and mistresses who enter- tain spies , are no longer more than cyphers in their own families ; and that we your petitioners are with great ...
... given up to the management of those who are false and per- . fidious . ' That such masters and mistresses who enter- tain spies , are no longer more than cyphers in their own families ; and that we your petitioners are with great ...
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Page 268 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 267 - Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
Page 156 - 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. \\ ithout it, learning is pedantry...
Page 285 - I am sorry to find that an author, who is very justly esteemed among the best judges, has admitted some strokes of this nature into a very fine poem ; I mean the Art of Criticism *, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Page 266 - The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. A young man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement. Every one has his flaws and weaknesses ; nay, the greatest blemishes are often found in the most shining characters ; but what an absurd thing is it to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities ? to observe his imperfections more than...
Page 268 - Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 100 - Intention, we shall find that it destroys the Merit of a Good Action; abates, but never takes away, the 'Malignity of an Evil Action ; and leaves an Indifferent Action in its natural state of Indifference. It is therefore of unspeakable Advantage to possess our Minds with an habitual Good Intention, and to aim all our Thoughts, Words and Actions at some laudable End, whether it be the Glory of our Maker, the Good of Mankind, or the Benefit of our own Souls.
Page 224 - A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant ; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities ; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most: obstinate and inflexible.
Page 110 - ... the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.