The Spectator: ...J. Tonson, 1718 |
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almoſt Anſwer appear Beauty becauſe Behaviour beſt Buſineſs confider Confideration Converſation Country Courſe Creature defire Deſign Diſcourſe diſcovered Diſtance Dreſs dreſſed Eſtate Eſteem Exerciſe expreſſed Eyes faid fame Faſhion feems felf fince firſt fome fomething foon Fortune Friend fuch fure Gentleman give himſelf Honour Houſe Humble Servant Humour Inſtances juſt kind Lady laſt leſs live look Loſs Love Mankind Manner Maſter meaſure Mind moſt muſt Nature neceſſary never obſerve Occafion Paffion particular paſs paſſed Perſon Pharamond Place pleaſed Pleaſure preſent propoſe publick Purpoſe racter raiſed Reaſon Reſpect reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſeen ſelf ſelves Senſe ſerve ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir ROGER ſmall ſome ſometimes ſpeak SPECTATOR ſtand ſtill ſtood ſuch tell themſelves ther theſe thing thoſe thou thought told Underſtanding uſe whole whoſe Woman Women Words World young
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Page 277 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 110 - Bible to be given him next day for his encouragement, and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place; and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the...
Page 96 - He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him. He carries a...
Page 147 - ... for any man under a duke; but told him at the same time, that it might be altered with a very few touches, and that he himself would be at the charge of it. Accordingly they got a painter, by the knight's directions, to add a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features to change it into the Saracen's Head.
Page 46 - ... hours which we here employ in virtue or in vice, the argument redoubles upon us for putting in practice this method of passing away our time. When a man has but a little stock to improve, and has opportunities of turning it all to good account, what shall we think of him...
Page 89 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
Page 120 - Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.
Page 145 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several times Foreman of the Petty Jury.
Page 144 - ... former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.
Page 277 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them.