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... creatures groaning under their refpective burdens , and to confider that pro- digious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one ...
... creatures groaning under their refpective burdens , and to confider that pro- digious bulk of human calamities which lay before me . There were , however , feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one ...
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... creatures with fentiments of humanity and compaffion . No. 560. MONDAY , JUNE 28 . -Verba intermiffa retentat . OVID . Met . 1. i . ver . 746 . " He tries his tongue , his filence fofily breaks . E DRYDEN . VERY one has heard of the ...
... creatures with fentiments of humanity and compaffion . No. 560. MONDAY , JUNE 28 . -Verba intermiffa retentat . OVID . Met . 1. i . ver . 746 . " He tries his tongue , his filence fofily breaks . E DRYDEN . VERY one has heard of the ...
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... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , and the next morning fends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may pofitively fay , that he has broke ine a child's ...
... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , and the next morning fends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may pofitively fay , that he has broke ine a child's ...
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... of nature , and pass from one end of the creation to the other ; as it is poffi- bie there may be fuch a fenfe in ourfelves hereafter , or or in creatures which are at prefent more exalted than 46 THE SPECTATOR . No. 565 %
... of nature , and pass from one end of the creation to the other ; as it is poffi- bie there may be fuch a fenfe in ourfelves hereafter , or or in creatures which are at prefent more exalted than 46 THE SPECTATOR . No. 565 %
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... creatures of the higheft capacities , as they creatures , that is , beings of finite and limited natures . The presence of every created being is con- fined to a certain measure of fpace , and confequently his obfervation is ftinted to ...
... creatures of the higheft capacities , as they creatures , that is , beings of finite and limited natures . The presence of every created being is con- fined to a certain measure of fpace , and confequently his obfervation is ftinted to ...
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