The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical Correspondence by Letters, which Lately Passed Between Certain Jews in Turkey, Italy, France, Etc, כרך 2

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Earlier 3rd edition published in Dublin in 1753.
 

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עמוד 135 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
עמוד 136 - Thofe call it pleafure, and contentment thefe : Some funk to beafts, find pleafure end in pain ; Some fwell'd to gods, confefs ev'n virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fati, To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that happinefs is happinefs...
עמוד 135 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape.
עמוד 19 - The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger for ever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.
עמוד 281 - And murder'd, for his wealth, the royal youth. 0 sacred hunger of pernicious gold! What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?
עמוד 260 - Greeks, and from the Greeks to the Romans, and from the Romans to the...
עמוד 56 - The able historian, the famous poet, the great — the pious and ingenious philosopher have an advantage over the conqueror and the general. Twenty centuries after they are dead and rotten they speak with as much eloquence and vivacity as when living ; and all that read their writings perceive their genius. The heroes who have rendered themselves famous by then...
עמוד 265 - EXEGI monumentum aere perennius, Regalique fitu Pyramidum altius : Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Poffit diruere, aut innumerabilis Annorum feries, et fuga temporum.
עמוד 185 - Wrong'd my believing weaknefs, and undone me. You told me, to compofe my troubled heart, Peace held her dwelling at the altar's foot. You told me, that religion cur'd defpair ; And foften'd every pang that pierc'd the foul. All, all, was kind deceit ! all, dear delufion ! Mix'd with th...
עמוד 186 - Yet try what changes gratitude can make. A Spanish wife, perhaps, would promise more : Profuse in charms, and prodigal of tears, Would promise all things, — and forget them all. But I have weaker charms, and simpler arts. Guileless of soul, and left as nature formed me, I err, in honest innocence of aim, And, seeking to compose, inflame you...

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