The Spectator, Volume 3J. Tonson, 1753 - English essays |
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... Spirits would rather be fecretly the Authors of Events , which are ferviceable to Mankind , than , without being fuch ... Spirit that it is the highest Step to which human human Nature can arrive . Triumph , Applaufe , Accla- 20 N ° 172 ...
... Spirits would rather be fecretly the Authors of Events , which are ferviceable to Mankind , than , without being fuch ... Spirit that it is the highest Step to which human human Nature can arrive . Triumph , Applaufe , Accla- 20 N ° 172 ...
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... Spirit , which have been erected by Merchants fince the Refor- mation , but at prefent content myself with what he al- lows us , Parfimony and Frugality . If it were confiftent with the Quality of fo ancient a Baronet as Sir ROGER , to ...
... Spirit , which have been erected by Merchants fince the Refor- mation , but at prefent content myself with what he al- lows us , Parfimony and Frugality . If it were confiftent with the Quality of fo ancient a Baronet as Sir ROGER , to ...
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... Spirits , or a more kindly Circulation of the Blood . Sir Francis Bacon mentions a cunning Solicitor , who would never ask a Favour of a great Man before Dinner ; but took care to prefer his Petition at a Time when the Party petitioned ...
... Spirits , or a more kindly Circulation of the Blood . Sir Francis Bacon mentions a cunning Solicitor , who would never ask a Favour of a great Man before Dinner ; but took care to prefer his Petition at a Time when the Party petitioned ...
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... Spirit of that Divine Author . THERE were two Families which from the Beginning of the World were as oppofite to each other as Light and Darkness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest Defcendent of the ...
... Spirit of that Divine Author . THERE were two Families which from the Beginning of the World were as oppofite to each other as Light and Darkness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest Defcendent of the ...
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... Spirits , would for a - while change Places with thefe good Men , and enter themselves into Nicho las Hart's Fraternity . Could one but lay afleep a few bufy Heads which I could name , from the Firft of No- ⚫vember next to the First of ...
... Spirits , would for a - while change Places with thefe good Men , and enter themselves into Nicho las Hart's Fraternity . Could one but lay afleep a few bufy Heads which I could name , from the Firft of No- ⚫vember next to the First of ...
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