The Spectator, Volume 3Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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A cool behaviour sets him on the rack , and is interpreted as an instance of aversion or indifference ' ; a fond one raises his suspicions , and looks too much like dissimulation and artifice . If the person he loves be chearful ...
A cool behaviour sets him on the rack , and is interpreted as an instance of aversion or indifference ' ; a fond one raises his suspicions , and looks too much like dissimulation and artifice . If the person he loves be chearful ...
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After this frightful account of jealousy , and the perfons who are most subject to it , it will be but fair to thew by what means the passion may be best allayed , and those who are possessed with it set at ease .
After this frightful account of jealousy , and the perfons who are most subject to it , it will be but fair to thew by what means the passion may be best allayed , and those who are possessed with it set at ease .
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This : is to change sides for a while with the jealous man , and to turn his own pafion upon himself ; to take some occafon of growing jealous of him , and to follow the example he himself hath set you . This counterfeited . jealousy ...
This : is to change sides for a while with the jealous man , and to turn his own pafion upon himself ; to take some occafon of growing jealous of him , and to follow the example he himself hath set you . This counterfeited . jealousy ...
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This Jofeph was much delighted with Mariamne's conversation , and endeavoured , with all his art and rhetoric , to set out the excess of Herod's passion for her ; but when he still found her cold and incredulous , he inconfiderately ...
This Jofeph was much delighted with Mariamne's conversation , and endeavoured , with all his art and rhetoric , to set out the excess of Herod's passion for her ; but when he still found her cold and incredulous , he inconfiderately ...
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... should win the gold ring , and be looked upon as the best grinner in the country , he ordered the oaths to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the table , which the grinner refusing , he was set aside as an unqualified person .
... should win the gold ring , and be looked upon as the best grinner in the country , he ordered the oaths to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the table , which the grinner refusing , he was set aside as an unqualified person .
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 3 The Spectator |
| Publisher | Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 |
| Original from | Ghent University |
| Digitized | 29 Jun 2009 |
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