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... will necessarily occur so many secret instincts , • and biasses of human nature which would pass unob& served by common eyes . I thank heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own excellent parents to • answer for ; but when ...
... will necessarily occur so many secret instincts , • and biasses of human nature which would pass unob& served by common eyes . I thank heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own excellent parents to • answer for ; but when ...
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... from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who delighted in being retired and abstracted from the pleasures that inchant the generality of the world .
... from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who delighted in being retired and abstracted from the pleasures that inchant the generality of the world .
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... of them has somewhere cr other feen me , and by an excellent faculty in mimicry my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my taciturnity a slyness which diverts more than any thing I could say if I were present .
... of them has somewhere cr other feen me , and by an excellent faculty in mimicry my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my taciturnity a slyness which diverts more than any thing I could say if I were present .
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The examination of a young girl for business , and the crying down her value for being a fight thing , together with every other circumstance in the scene , are inimic tably excellent , and have the true spirit of comedy i though a ...
The examination of a young girl for business , and the crying down her value for being a fight thing , together with every other circumstance in the scene , are inimic tably excellent , and have the true spirit of comedy i though a ...
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But when my admin ration is fixed upon this excellent character , and two or three others in the play , I must confess I was moved with the utmost indignation at the trivial , senseless , and unnatural representation of the chaplain .
But when my admin ration is fixed upon this excellent character , and two or three others in the play , I must confess I was moved with the utmost indignation at the trivial , senseless , and unnatural representation of the chaplain .
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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