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HEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young women of quality have entertained , to the hazard of their ...
HEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young women of quality have entertained , to the hazard of their ...
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You make already the entertainment at Mrs. Modifh's tea - table ; she says , she always thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage " a family with admirable prudence : The dies to see what • demure and serious airs wedlock ...
You make already the entertainment at Mrs. Modifh's tea - table ; she says , she always thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage " a family with admirable prudence : The dies to see what • demure and serious airs wedlock ...
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... many sober happy hours when even Lam * shut out , and my dear master is entertained only with his own thoughts . ... and by what I can learn she has a character of great modesty , so that there is nothing to be thought other way .
... many sober happy hours when even Lam * shut out , and my dear master is entertained only with his own thoughts . ... and by what I can learn she has a character of great modesty , so that there is nothing to be thought other way .
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... whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience ...
... whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience ...
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Ambition raises a secret tumult in the foul , it infames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of thought : it is still reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it .
Ambition raises a secret tumult in the foul , it infames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of thought : it is still reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it .
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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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