The Spectator, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... least such as are not the most plain and simple . ' A man could not be well guilty of gluttony , if he stuck to these few obvious and easy rules . In the first case there would be no variety of tastes to solicit his palate , and ...
... least such as are not the most plain and simple . ' A man could not be well guilty of gluttony , if he stuck to these few obvious and easy rules . In the first case there would be no variety of tastes to solicit his palate , and ...
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... least infection , which those writers unanimously ascribe to that unin- terrupted temperance which he always observed . And here I cannot but mention an observation which I have often made , upon reading the lives of the philosophers ...
... least infection , which those writers unanimously ascribe to that unin- terrupted temperance which he always observed . And here I cannot but mention an observation which I have often made , upon reading the lives of the philosophers ...
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... least part of its happiness . The raptures of innocent passion are but like lightning to the day , they rather interrupt than advance the pleasure of it . How happy then is that life to be , where the highest pleasures of sense are but ...
... least part of its happiness . The raptures of innocent passion are but like lightning to the day , they rather interrupt than advance the pleasure of it . How happy then is that life to be , where the highest pleasures of sense are but ...
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... least , what is charged upon the city , must in- crease the burden upon the rest of her subjects . Perhaps the inhabitants here are not above a tenth part of the whole ; yet as they are better fed , and clothed , and lodged , than her ...
... least , what is charged upon the city , must in- crease the burden upon the rest of her subjects . Perhaps the inhabitants here are not above a tenth part of the whole ; yet as they are better fed , and clothed , and lodged , than her ...
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... least three - fourths of the whole fruits of the country . If this is the case , the subjects without property pay three - fourths of the rents , and consequently enable the landed men to pay three - fourths of their taxes . Now if so ...
... least three - fourths of the whole fruits of the country . If this is the case , the subjects without property pay three - fourths of the rents , and consequently enable the landed men to pay three - fourths of their taxes . Now if so ...
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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.