The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 11804 |
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الصفحة viii
... readers , who expected an account , in a common way , of the customs and policies of the several governments in Italy , re- flections upon the genius of the people , a map of their provinces , or a measure of their build- ings . How ...
... readers , who expected an account , in a common way , of the customs and policies of the several governments in Italy , re- flections upon the genius of the people , a map of their provinces , or a measure of their build- ings . How ...
الصفحة ix
... reader of plain sense , but without a fine taste , turning over these parts of the volume , which make more than half of it , and wondering how an author , who seems to have so solid an understanding , when he treats of more weighty ...
... reader of plain sense , but without a fine taste , turning over these parts of the volume , which make more than half of it , and wondering how an author , who seems to have so solid an understanding , when he treats of more weighty ...
الصفحة xii
... by such marks as might remove the least possibility of mistake in the most undiscerning readers . It was neces- sary that his share in the Tatlers should be ad- justed in a complete collection of his works ; for xii PREFACE .
... by such marks as might remove the least possibility of mistake in the most undiscerning readers . It was neces- sary that his share in the Tatlers should be ad- justed in a complete collection of his works ; for xii PREFACE .
الصفحة xviii
... especially since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for having enlarged it with the fol- lowing verses . to to sug das gais blog od ubs M 100 to TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Earl of Warwick , &. xviii PREFACE .
... especially since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for having enlarged it with the fol- lowing verses . to to sug das gais blog od ubs M 100 to TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Earl of Warwick , &. xviii PREFACE .
الصفحة 1
... reader seldom peruses a } book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or cho- leric.disposition , married or a bachelor , with other particulars of the like nature , that conduce very ...
... reader seldom peruses a } book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or cho- leric.disposition , married or a bachelor , with other particulars of the like nature , that conduce very ...
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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...