The Spectator, Volume 3Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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... shall be the gentleman . The gentleman , no more than the merchant , is able , without the help of numbers , to account for the fuccefs of any action , or the prudence of any adventure . If , for instance , the chace is his whole ...
... shall be the gentleman . The gentleman , no more than the merchant , is able , without the help of numbers , to account for the fuccefs of any action , or the prudence of any adventure . If , for instance , the chace is his whole ...
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... SHALL this day entertain my readers with two or three letters I have received from my correfpon- dents : the firft discovers to me a fpecies of females which have hitherto efcaped my notice , and is as follows . Mr. SPECTATOR , IAM AM a ...
... SHALL this day entertain my readers with two or three letters I have received from my correfpon- dents : the firft discovers to me a fpecies of females which have hitherto efcaped my notice , and is as follows . Mr. SPECTATOR , IAM AM a ...
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... shall give it my reader as it was fent to me . Exeter , Sept. 7 . · C Mr. SPECTATOR , You OU were pleafed in a late Speculation to take notice of the inconvenience we lie under in the country , in not being able to keep pace with the ...
... shall give it my reader as it was fent to me . Exeter , Sept. 7 . · C Mr. SPECTATOR , You OU were pleafed in a late Speculation to take notice of the inconvenience we lie under in the country , in not being able to keep pace with the ...
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... shall be happy without the mistreffes whom they cannot purchase on ⚫ other terms . ་ " " " C What will be a great embellishment to your dif- courfe will be , that you may find inftances of the haughty , the proud , the frolick , the ...
... shall be happy without the mistreffes whom they cannot purchase on ⚫ other terms . ་ " " " C What will be a great embellishment to your dif- courfe will be , that you may find inftances of the haughty , the proud , the frolick , the ...
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... shall now fpeak of it as it is a moral virtue . The first may make a man easy in himself and agreeable to others , but implies no merit in him that is poffeffed of it . A man is no more to be praised upon this account , than because he ...
... shall now fpeak of it as it is a moral virtue . The first may make a man easy in himself and agreeable to others , but implies no merit in him that is poffeffed of it . A man is no more to be praised upon this account , than because he ...
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