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... hope , excufe this prefumption ; but the juftice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excufe . Candor and opennefs of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from ...
... hope , excufe this prefumption ; but the juftice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excufe . Candor and opennefs of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from ...
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... hope for the best , I fhall not pronounce too pofitively on this point , till I have feen forty weeks wel over ; at which period of time , a my good friend Sir Roger has often told me , he has more business as a juf- tice of peace ...
... hope for the best , I fhall not pronounce too pofitively on this point , till I have feen forty weeks wel over ; at which period of time , a my good friend Sir Roger has often told me , he has more business as a juf- tice of peace ...
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... hope I fhall foon hate you as a villain to Robin ran back with , • Madam , The credulous FLAVIA . ' YOUR credulity when you are to gain your point , and fufpicion when you fear to lofe it , make it a very hard part to behave as becomes ...
... hope I fhall foon hate you as a villain to Robin ran back with , • Madam , The credulous FLAVIA . ' YOUR credulity when you are to gain your point , and fufpicion when you fear to lofe it , make it a very hard part to behave as becomes ...
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... very unpleafant at all other times , are very agreeable when excited by proper defcriptions . It is not ftrange , that we fhould take de- I 2 light light in fuch paffages as are apt to produce hope THE SPECTATOR . 87.
... very unpleafant at all other times , are very agreeable when excited by proper defcriptions . It is not ftrange , that we fhould take de- I 2 light light in fuch paffages as are apt to produce hope THE SPECTATOR . 87.
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Joseph Addison. light in fuch paffages as are apt to produce hope , joy , admiration , love , or the like emotions in us , because they never rife in the mind without an inward plea- fure which attends them . But how comes it to pass ...
Joseph Addison. light in fuch paffages as are apt to produce hope , joy , admiration , love , or the like emotions in us , because they never rife in the mind without an inward plea- fure which attends them . But how comes it to pass ...
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