The SpectatorT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... Plato has done , who banishes it out of his common - wealth . At present , our notions of music are so very uncer- tain , that we do not know what it is we like ; only in general , we are transported with any thing that is not English ...
... Plato has done , who banishes it out of his common - wealth . At present , our notions of music are so very uncer- tain , that we do not know what it is we like ; only in general , we are transported with any thing that is not English ...
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... Plato's manner , in a kind of allegory , and by supposing Humour to be a person , deduce to him all his qualifications , according to the following genealogy . Truth was the founder of the family , and the father of Good Sense . Good ...
... Plato's manner , in a kind of allegory , and by supposing Humour to be a person , deduce to him all his qualifications , according to the following genealogy . Truth was the founder of the family , and the father of Good Sense . Good ...
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... Plato's followers in particular , when they talk of the world of ideas , entertain us with sub- stances and beings no less extravagant and chimerical . Many Aristotelians have likewise spoken as unintelli- gibly of their substantial ...
... Plato's followers in particular , when they talk of the world of ideas , entertain us with sub- stances and beings no less extravagant and chimerical . Many Aristotelians have likewise spoken as unintelli- gibly of their substantial ...
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... Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior character , who have written since those several blemishes were discovered . I do not find that there was a proper sepa ...
... Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior character , who have written since those several blemishes were discovered . I do not find that there was a proper sepa ...
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... Plato and his followers upon that subject . They tell us , that every passion which has been contracted by the soul during her residence in the body , remains with her in a separate state ; and that the soul in the body , or out of the ...
... Plato and his followers upon that subject . They tell us , that every passion which has been contracted by the soul during her residence in the body , remains with her in a separate state ; and that the soul in the body , or out of the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted acrostics admiration Æneid Alcibiades anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour body Castilian Cicero club consider Constantia conversation creatures daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour English entertained Eudoxus fancy father filled forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest head hear heard heart Herod honour human humour Italian kind king lady laugh letter likewise live look mankind manner Mariamne marriage means mind nation nature neral never night observed occasion opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion person Pindar Plato pleased pleasure poet proper racter reader reason religion renegado ridiculous satire says sense shew short side Socrates soul species SPECTATOR speculation tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town tragedy turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - 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.
Seite 374 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Seite 374 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant 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...
Seite 324 - ... that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Seite 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Seite 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Seite 373 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Seite 334 - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 257 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.