I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain, the... The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Страница 172по Joseph Addison - 1837Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 страници
...dtoiit, v6^if is Siaxcirai, Ti/io PTTH. Fir.-l, In obedience to thy country's rites, Worship th' immorUl gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country...polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country-people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 страници
...but of happiness ! No. 112. MONDAY, JULY 9. iv Trpoira QtoiiQ, vo^itf we SiaKtirat, Ti/ja — PYTH. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday...polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country-people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 456 страници
...of the 'Spectator' upon which this picture is founded is by Addison, and in his best style : — , " I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday,...that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilising of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages... | |
| William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 страници
...Addison, in hia Sir Roger de Coverley, thus agreeably describes the value of Sabbath-observances : " I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday,...civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people wonld soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of... | |
| Micaiah Hill - 1857 - 496 страници
...manners of the country gentleman, commences with this important acknowledgment : — " I am always well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if...thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind." From DEAN PRIDEAUX'S "Connexion of the Old and aeanx— New Testament," we have presented, in a former... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 страници
...always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were onlv a human institution, it would be the best method that...certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 страници
...MONDAY, JULY 9, 1711. First, in obedience to thy country's riles, Wonhip th immortal god*. — I'VIRAO. n (that her mother wished her to be married to) ; Ephraim the Quaker, her guardi aethod that could have been thought of fur polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain, the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 страници
...manuscript, and cheats the eyes fit f.illi-ry cnlk-s by * thousand arts. -Tut, ». SHI SIR ROGER AT CHURCH. I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday,...certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the... | |
| John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 страници
...sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them. LXV. I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday,...the best method that could have been thought of for polishing and civilising mankind. It is certain, the country people would soon degenerate into a kind... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 страници
...more easy to themselves, but more edifying to the people. SIR ROGER'S BEHAVIOR IN CHURCH ON A SUNDAY. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday,...certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the... | |
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