Wisdom Wit And Allegory Selected From the Spectator
Wisdom Wit And Allegory Selected From the Spectator
John Emmett Richardson
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" % The rich may as well ask to borrow of the poor, as the man of virtue or merit hope for addition to his character from any but such as himself. He that commends another engages so much of his own reputation as he gives to that person commended ; and he that has nothing laudable in himself is not of ability to be such a surety. The wise Phocion was so sensible how dangerous it was to be touched with what the multitude approved, that upon a general ac- clamation made when he was making an orat...ion, he turned to an intelligent friend who stood near him, and asked in a surprised manner, " What slip have I made]" THE PICTURE GALLERY: A DREAM. " And with the shadowy picture feeds his mind. " VIRGIL. HEN the weather hinders me from taking my di- versions without doors, I frequently make a little party with two or three select friends, to visit any thing curious that may be seen under covert. My principal entertainments of this nature are pictures, inso- much that when I have found the weather set in to be very bad, I have taken a whole day's journey to see a gallery that is furnished by the hands of great masters.
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