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Page xxiv
Bụt to enumerate the great advantages whicli the public has received from your
administration , would be a more proper work for an history than for an address of
this nature . Your Lordfhip appears as great in your private life , as in the most ...
Bụt to enumerate the great advantages whicli the public has received from your
administration , would be a more proper work for an history than for an address of
this nature . Your Lordfhip appears as great in your private life , as in the most ...
Page 3
I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most
public places , though there are not above half a dozen of my select friends that
know me ; of whom my next paper shall give a more particular account . There is
no ...
I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most
public places , though there are not above half a dozen of my select friends that
know me ; of whom my next paper shall give a more particular account . There is
no ...
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But this unhappy affectation of being wife rather than honest , witty than good -
natur'd , is the fource of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impreffions are
owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the aivkward imitation of the
rest ...
But this unhappy affectation of being wife rather than honest , witty than good -
natur'd , is the fource of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impreffions are
owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the aivkward imitation of the
rest ...
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But to me , who am fo whimsical in a corrupt age as to act according to nature
and reason , a selfish man , in the most shining circumstance and equipage ,
appears in the same condition with the fellow above - mentioned , but more ...
But to me , who am fo whimsical in a corrupt age as to act according to nature
and reason , a selfish man , in the most shining circumstance and equipage ,
appears in the same condition with the fellow above - mentioned , but more ...
Page 77
Your animadversion upon this infolence would be a great favour to , 6 • Sir , Your
most humble servant , « S. C. I have frequently seen of this sort of fellows , I have
THE SPECTATOR . 77 an opportunity of injuring any other way. The ...
Your animadversion upon this infolence would be a great favour to , 6 • Sir , Your
most humble servant , « S. C. I have frequently seen of this sort of fellows , I have
THE SPECTATOR . 77 an opportunity of injuring any other way. The ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 1 The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Author | Joseph Addison |
| Published | 1793 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2012 |
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