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You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain , before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice .
You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain , before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice .
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The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in so good an understanding , and celebrated one another with so much generosity , that each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is ...
The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in so good an understanding , and celebrated one another with so much generosity , that each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is ...
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... one would think you lived the lives of fylvan deities , or roved among the walks of paradise , like the first happy pair . . But pr'ythee leave these whimsies , and come to town in • order to live and talk like other mortals .
... one would think you lived the lives of fylvan deities , or roved among the walks of paradise , like the first happy pair . . But pr'ythee leave these whimsies , and come to town in • order to live and talk like other mortals .
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Admiration is a very lort - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be till fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive by perpetual succession of miracles rising , up to its view .
Admiration is a very lort - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be till fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive by perpetual succession of miracles rising , up to its view .
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If I had laid out that which I profused in • luxury and wantonness , in acts of generosity or charity I have lived a bachelor to this day ; and instead of a ' numerous offspring , with which , in the regular ways of life , I might ...
If I had laid out that which I profused in • luxury and wantonness , in acts of generosity or charity I have lived a bachelor to this day ; and instead of a ' numerous offspring , with which , in the regular ways of life , I might ...
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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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