The Spectator, Volume 3J. Tonson, 1753 - English essays |
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Page 47
... Person remarkable among the inferior People of that Place for his great Wisdom and his Broad Band . He contracted his Mouth with much Gravity , and , that he might difpofe his Mind to be more ferious than ordinary , begun the Tune of ...
... Person remarkable among the inferior People of that Place for his great Wisdom and his Broad Band . He contracted his Mouth with much Gravity , and , that he might difpofe his Mind to be more ferious than ordinary , begun the Tune of ...
Page 56
... Person who had fomething to communicate to her from the Emperor . He was with her in private moft part of the Night ; but upon his preparing to go away about Break of Day , he obferved that there had fallen a great Snow during his Stay ...
... Person who had fomething to communicate to her from the Emperor . He was with her in private moft part of the Night ; but upon his preparing to go away about Break of Day , he obferved that there had fallen a great Snow during his Stay ...
Page 63
... feen , in their old Places of Refidence , there was no Perfon fo Vicious who had not fome Goed in him , nor any Person fo Virtuous who had not in him fame fome Evil . The Truth of it is , they N ° 183 63 The SPECTATOR .
... feen , in their old Places of Refidence , there was no Perfon fo Vicious who had not fome Goed in him , nor any Person fo Virtuous who had not in him fame fome Evil . The Truth of it is , they N ° 183 63 The SPECTATOR .
Page 99
... Person ; but fuch a Way of acting is childish , and inconfiftent with the Manner of our Being . And it appears from the very Nature of Things , that there cannot be any thing effectually dispatched in the Distraction of a publick Le ...
... Person ; but fuch a Way of acting is childish , and inconfiftent with the Manner of our Being . And it appears from the very Nature of Things , that there cannot be any thing effectually dispatched in the Distraction of a publick Le ...
Page 128
... Person that is crazed , tho ' with Pride or Malice , is a Sight very mortifying to Human Nature ; but when the Diftemper arifes from any indifèreet Fervours of Devo- tion , or too intense an Application of the Mind to its miftaken ...
... Person that is crazed , tho ' with Pride or Malice , is a Sight very mortifying to Human Nature ; but when the Diftemper arifes from any indifèreet Fervours of Devo- tion , or too intense an Application of the Mind to its miftaken ...
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