The Spectator, Volume 3Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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Your great abilities , and unquestioned integrity , in those high employments which you have passed through , would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation , had they not been accompanied with that moderation in ...
Your great abilities , and unquestioned integrity , in those high employments which you have passed through , would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation , had they not been accompanied with that moderation in ...
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... it is of fo delicate a nature , that it scorns to take up with any thing less than an equal return of love , Not the warmest expressions of affection , the softest and most tender hypocrisy , are able to give any satisfaction ...
... it is of fo delicate a nature , that it scorns to take up with any thing less than an equal return of love , Not the warmest expressions of affection , the softest and most tender hypocrisy , are able to give any satisfaction ...
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There are many who take a kind of barbarous pleasure in the jealousy of those who love them , that insult over an aking hearty , and triumph io their charms which are able to excite so much uneasiness .
There are many who take a kind of barbarous pleasure in the jealousy of those who love them , that insult over an aking hearty , and triumph io their charms which are able to excite so much uneasiness .
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MARIAMNE had all the charms that beauty , birth , wit and youth could give a woman , and Herod all the love that such charms are able to raife in a warm and amorous disposition . In the midst of this his fondness for Mariamne , he put ...
MARIAMNE had all the charms that beauty , birth , wit and youth could give a woman , and Herod all the love that such charms are able to raife in a warm and amorous disposition . In the midst of this his fondness for Mariamne , he put ...
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When I have my returns from abroad , I can tell to a fhilling , by the help of numbers , the profit or loss by my adventure ; but I ought also to be able to thew that I had reason for making it , either from my own experience , or that ...
When I have my returns from abroad , I can tell to a fhilling , by the help of numbers , the profit or loss by my adventure ; but I ought also to be able to thew that I had reason for making it , either from my own experience , or that ...
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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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