The Spectator, Volume 8J. Nunn, 1816 |
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... mankind , and at leisure to reflect upon your past atchievements ; for which reason I look upon you as a person very well qualified for a dedication . 1 might possibly disappoint my readers , and your- self too , if I do not endeavour ...
... mankind , and at leisure to reflect upon your past atchievements ; for which reason I look upon you as a person very well qualified for a dedication . 1 might possibly disappoint my readers , and your- self too , if I do not endeavour ...
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... mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy , would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to ...
... mankind were cast into a public stock , in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most unhappy , would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to ...
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... mankind had thus cast their burdens , the phantom which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle Spectator of what passed , ap- proached towards me . I grew uneasy at her presence , when of a sudden she held her magnifying ...
... mankind had thus cast their burdens , the phantom which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle Spectator of what passed , ap- proached towards me . I grew uneasy at her presence , when of a sudden she held her magnifying ...
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... mankind , people being naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them . There is one kind of egotists which is very common in the world , though I do not remember that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean those ...
... mankind , people being naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them . There is one kind of egotists which is very common in the world , though I do not remember that any writer has taken notice of them ; I mean those ...
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... mankind in , and a certain freedom of behaviour , which is not so easily acquired in any other place . At the same time I must own , that some military airs are pretty extraordinary , and that a man who goes into the army a coxcomb will ...
... mankind in , and a certain freedom of behaviour , which is not so easily acquired in any other place . At the same time I must own , that some military airs are pretty extraordinary , and that a man who goes into the army a coxcomb will ...
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