The Spectator, 第 3 卷W. Wilson, 1778 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 71 筆
第 14 頁
... feveral remote con- fequences , until he has proved very ingenious in working out his own mifery . If both these methods fail , the best way will be to let him fee you are much caft down and afflicted for the ill opinion he entertains ...
... feveral remote con- fequences , until he has proved very ingenious in working out his own mifery . If both these methods fail , the best way will be to let him fee you are much caft down and afflicted for the ill opinion he entertains ...
第 21 頁
... feveral handicraft prizes to be contended for by our British artifans , and the in- fluence they might have towards the improvement of our several manufactures . I have fince that been very much furprised with the following ...
... feveral handicraft prizes to be contended for by our British artifans , and the in- fluence they might have towards the improvement of our several manufactures . I have fince that been very much furprised with the following ...
第 22 頁
... feveral affes are now kept in body - clothes , and fweated every morning upon the Heath , and that all the country - fellows within ten miles of the Swan , grin an hour or two in their glaffes every morning , in order to qualify ...
... feveral affes are now kept in body - clothes , and fweated every morning upon the Heath , and that all the country - fellows within ten miles of the Swan , grin an hour or two in their glaffes every morning , in order to qualify ...
第 23 頁
... feveral other grotesque figures that prefented themselves , which it would be too tedious to defcribe . I must not however omit a plough- man , who lived in the farther part of the country , and being very lucky in a pair of long ...
... feveral other grotesque figures that prefented themselves , which it would be too tedious to defcribe . I must not however omit a plough- man , who lived in the farther part of the country , and being very lucky in a pair of long ...
第 29 頁
... feveral windows obferving the jezebel I am now complaining of . I at first looked on her myself with the higheft contempt , could divert myfelf with her airs for half an hour , and afterwards ' take up my Plutarch with great ...
... feveral windows obferving the jezebel I am now complaining of . I at first looked on her myself with the higheft contempt , could divert myfelf with her airs for half an hour , and afterwards ' take up my Plutarch with great ...
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第 68 頁 - I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly; and I believe he will often find, that what he calls a zeal for his religion, is either pride, interest, or ill-nature.
第 183 頁 - ... human figure ; sometimes we see the man appearing distinctly in all his limbs and features, sometimes we find the figure wrought up to a great elegancy, but seldom meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings.
第 197 頁 - This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach ; We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour : How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints...
第 218 頁 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
第 207 頁 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing 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.
第 41 頁 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep...
第 213 頁 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others ; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
第 89 頁 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
第 104 頁 - It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger, had not he prevented him...
第 213 頁 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...