The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 |
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... actions only as an impartial Spectator , without any regard to them as they happen to ad- vance or cross my own private intereft . But while I am thus employed myself , I cannot help obferv- ing , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to ...
... actions only as an impartial Spectator , without any regard to them as they happen to ad- vance or cross my own private intereft . But while I am thus employed myself , I cannot help obferv- ing , how thofe about me fuffer themselves to ...
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... actions . If on the one hand we fair- ly weighed every circumftance , we thould frequent- ly find them obliged to do that action we at firft fight condemn , in order to avoid another we should have been much more difpleased with . If on ...
... actions . If on the one hand we fair- ly weighed every circumftance , we thould frequent- ly find them obliged to do that action we at firft fight condemn , in order to avoid another we should have been much more difpleased with . If on ...
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... action . The Spartan commonwealth was indeed wonderfully exact in this particular ; and I do not remember in all my reading to have met with fo nice an example of juftice as that recorded by Plu- tarch , with which I fhall clofe my ...
... action . The Spartan commonwealth was indeed wonderfully exact in this particular ; and I do not remember in all my reading to have met with fo nice an example of juftice as that recorded by Plu- tarch , with which I fhall clofe my ...
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... action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief magi- ftrates , decreed he fhould be prefented with a gar- land ; but as foon as they had done fo , fined him a thousand drachmas for going out to the battle un ...
... action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief magi- ftrates , decreed he fhould be prefented with a gar- land ; but as foon as they had done fo , fined him a thousand drachmas for going out to the battle un ...
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... actions of a few objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know e- very thing in which he refides , infinite space gives room ...
... actions of a few objects , that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know e- very thing in which he refides , infinite space gives room ...
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