The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... attended with worfe confequences in cafe of a rep lfe . During this twilight of intel ects , the patient is extremely apt , as love is the moft witty paffion in nature , to offer at fome pert fallies now and then , by way of flourish ...
... attended with worfe confequences in cafe of a rep lfe . During this twilight of intel ects , the patient is extremely apt , as love is the moft witty paffion in nature , to offer at fome pert fallies now and then , by way of flourish ...
Page 15
... more virtuous than he really is , and either not attend to his vices , or mistake even his vices for virtues . It is this fatal hypo- C 2 crify * crify and felf - deceit which is taken notice THE SPECTATOR . 15 No. CCCXCIX. ...
... more virtuous than he really is , and either not attend to his vices , or mistake even his vices for virtues . It is this fatal hypo- C 2 crify * crify and felf - deceit which is taken notice THE SPECTATOR . 15 No. CCCXCIX. ...
Page 23
... attended with re- proaches , fufpicions , enmities , truces , quarrelling , re- concilement . Shall publish , for the entertainment of this day , an odd fort of a packet , which I have just received from one of my female correfpondents ...
... attended with re- proaches , fufpicions , enmities , truces , quarrelling , re- concilement . Shall publish , for the entertainment of this day , an odd fort of a packet , which I have just received from one of my female correfpondents ...
Page 34
... attending a diffection , frequenting the courts of juftice , or studying the fathers , Cleanthes reads plays , dances , dreffes , and fpends his time in drawing- rooms ; instead of being a good lawyer , divine , or phyfi- cian ...
... attending a diffection , frequenting the courts of juftice , or studying the fathers , Cleanthes reads plays , dances , dreffes , and fpends his time in drawing- rooms ; instead of being a good lawyer , divine , or phyfi- cian ...
Page 35
... attended the bar , his modeft and ingenuous virtue would furely have made but a very indiferent figure ; and Tully's declamatory inclination would have been as ufclefs in poetry . Nature , if left to herself , leads us on in the best ...
... attended the bar , his modeft and ingenuous virtue would furely have made but a very indiferent figure ; and Tully's declamatory inclination would have been as ufclefs in poetry . Nature , if left to herself , leads us on in the best ...
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