The Spectator, Volume 4Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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Page 15
... proper breathing places , and at laft trundles down in a continued line of Dactyls . Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγε ' ἔχοντα , Kai N ° 253 THE SPECTATOR . 15 take notice, that our English Author has after the ...
... proper breathing places , and at laft trundles down in a continued line of Dactyls . Καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον , κρατέρ ̓ ἄλγε ' ἔχοντα , Kai N ° 253 THE SPECTATOR . 15 take notice, that our English Author has after the ...
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... proper : Ma- ' trimony and the clergy are the topicks of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ' learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with : She is a difcreet , ingenious , pleafant , pious woman : I ...
... proper : Ma- ' trimony and the clergy are the topicks of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ' learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with : She is a difcreet , ingenious , pleafant , pious woman : I ...
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... proper and genuine motives to these and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but fmall improvements in the world , were there not fome common principle of action work . ing equally with all men ...
... proper and genuine motives to these and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but fmall improvements in the world , were there not fome common principle of action work . ing equally with all men ...
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... things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper fenfe , and for a while fet the appetite at reft : But fame is a good fo wholly foreign to our na- 6 tures , . tures , that we have no faculty in the 26 N ° 256 THE SPECTATOR .
... things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper fenfe , and for a while fet the appetite at reft : But fame is a good fo wholly foreign to our na- 6 tures , . tures , that we have no faculty in the 26 N ° 256 THE SPECTATOR .
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... proper inftruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would neverthe- lefs fail in the attainment of this laft end , if they pro- ceeded from a defire of the first . B 3 Thefe Thefe three propofitions are ...
... proper inftruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would neverthe- lefs fail in the attainment of this laft end , if they pro- ceeded from a defire of the first . B 3 Thefe Thefe three propofitions are ...
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