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I need not tell my reader , that I here point at the reign of Auguftus , and I believe he will be of my opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained so great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and ...
I need not tell my reader , that I here point at the reign of Auguftus , and I believe he will be of my opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained so great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and ...
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Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue , without any regard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our reproaches or ...
Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue , without any regard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our reproaches or ...
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Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind illfounded : for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not ...
Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind illfounded : for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not ...
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... that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank , who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind .
... that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank , who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind .
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... if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would think there nould be something wonderfully pleasing in the possession ...
... if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would think there nould be something wonderfully pleasing in the possession ...
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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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