The Spectator, Volume 3J. Tonson, 1753 - English essays |
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and find out a Defign in a Smile ; they give new Senses and Significations to Words and Actions ; and are ever tormenting themselves with Fancies of their own raising . They generally act in a Disguise themselves , and there- fore ...
and find out a Defign in a Smile ; they give new Senses and Significations to Words and Actions ; and are ever tormenting themselves with Fancies of their own raising . They generally act in a Disguise themselves , and there- fore ...
Page 40
... Sense of it is to this Purpose ; What I spent Í loft ; what I poffeffed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . SINCE I am thus infenfibly engaged in Sacred Writ , I cannot forbear making an Extract of feveral Paffages ...
... Sense of it is to this Purpose ; What I spent Í loft ; what I poffeffed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . SINCE I am thus infenfibly engaged in Sacred Writ , I cannot forbear making an Extract of feveral Paffages ...
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... Sense of his Guilt and his Duty . We find Esop in the most di- ftant Ages of Greece ; and if we look into the very Begin- nings of the Commonwealth of Rome , we fee a Mutiny among the common People appeafed by a Fable of the Belly and ...
... Sense of his Guilt and his Duty . We find Esop in the most di- ftant Ages of Greece ; and if we look into the very Begin- nings of the Commonwealth of Rome , we fee a Mutiny among the common People appeafed by a Fable of the Belly and ...
Page 70
... Sense of his Guilt and his Duty . We find Efop in the moft di- ftant Ages of Greece ; and if we look into the very Begin- nings of the Commonwealth of Rome , we fee a Mutiny among the common People appeafed by a Fable of the Belly and ...
... Sense of his Guilt and his Duty . We find Efop in the moft di- ftant Ages of Greece ; and if we look into the very Begin- nings of the Commonwealth of Rome , we fee a Mutiny among the common People appeafed by a Fable of the Belly and ...
Page 81
... Sense of Glory . As Defire had the leaft Part in the Paffion I heretofore professed towards you , fo has Vanity no Share in the Glory to which you have now raised me . Innocence , Knowledge , Beauty , Virtue , Sin- cerity , and ...
... Sense of Glory . As Defire had the leaft Part in the Paffion I heretofore professed towards you , fo has Vanity no Share in the Glory to which you have now raised me . Innocence , Knowledge , Beauty , Virtue , Sin- cerity , and ...
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