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I have seen a very ingenious author on this fabject , who founds his fpcculations on the fuppofition , that as a man hath in the mould of his face a remote likeness to that of an ox , a sheep ' , a lion , an hog , or any other creature ...
I have seen a very ingenious author on this fabject , who founds his fpcculations on the fuppofition , that as a man hath in the mould of his face a remote likeness to that of an ox , a sheep ' , a lion , an hog , or any other creature ...
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You are so excessively perplexed with the particularities in their behaviour , that , to be at ease , one would be apt to wish there were no such creatures . They expect fo great allowances , and give so little to others , that they who ...
You are so excessively perplexed with the particularities in their behaviour , that , to be at ease , one would be apt to wish there were no such creatures . They expect fo great allowances , and give so little to others , that they who ...
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Under his forming hands a creature grow , Man - like , but diff ? rent sex ; fo lovely fair , That what seemd fair in all the world , seem'd now . Mean , or in her summ'd up , in her contain'd , And in her looks ; which from that time ...
Under his forming hands a creature grow , Man - like , but diff ? rent sex ; fo lovely fair , That what seemd fair in all the world , seem'd now . Mean , or in her summ'd up , in her contain'd , And in her looks ; which from that time ...
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... that sort of creature whom the fillier part of women call a fine gentleman . As this age has a much more gross taste in courtship , as well as in every thing else , than the last had , these gentle , men are instances of it in their ...
... that sort of creature whom the fillier part of women call a fine gentleman . As this age has a much more gross taste in courtship , as well as in every thing else , than the last had , these gentle , men are instances of it in their ...
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and conversation ; I mean that intercourse and communication which every reasonable creature ought to maintain with the great author of his being . The man who lives under an habitual sense of the divine prefence keeps up a perpetual ...
and conversation ; I mean that intercourse and communication which every reasonable creature ought to maintain with the great author of his being . The man who lives under an habitual sense of the divine prefence keeps up a perpetual ...
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| Title | The Spectator .. Volume 2 of The Spectator |
| Publisher | Peter Wilson, 1755 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2020 |
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