The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG. P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it excites fresh desires ...
... tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it excites fresh desires ...
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... tion . I shall in the last place shew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that ...
... tion . I shall in the last place shew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that ...
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... tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge in him ; which give him a relish of such reflections and speculations as have an aptness to improve the mind , and to make ...
... tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge in him ; which give him a relish of such reflections and speculations as have an aptness to improve the mind , and to make ...
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... tion , might have set their country in a flame . The air - pump , the barometer , the quadrant , and the like inventions , were thrown out to these busy spirits , as tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on ...
... tion , might have set their country in a flame . The air - pump , the barometer , the quadrant , and the like inventions , were thrown out to these busy spirits , as tubs and barrels are to a whale , that he may let the ship sail on ...
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... tion ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite ...
... tion ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite ...
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Página 440 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 649 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 447 - Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Página 70 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 132 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Página 154 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 145 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 72 - Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 326 - The pleasures of the imagination, taken in their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding.
Página 324 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...