The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 11804 |
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... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not disposing according to mens desert , or enquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a mind ...
... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not disposing according to mens desert , or enquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a mind ...
الصفحة 31
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if possible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short ...
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if possible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short ...
الصفحة 34
... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means at least divert the minds of my female readers from greater trifles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means at least divert the minds of my female readers from greater trifles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
الصفحة 38
... endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hands , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another , without his ...
... endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hands , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another , without his ...
الصفحة 49
... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
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الصفحة 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
الصفحة 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
الصفحة 270 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
الصفحة 338 - I see multitudes of people passing over it", said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it ". As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
الصفحة 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
الصفحة 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
الصفحة 256 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
الصفحة 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, 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...
الصفحة 339 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants; and among many other feathered...