The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 31
... learning . At a coffee - houfe near the Temple , I found a couple of young gentlemen engaged very finartly in a difpute on the fucceffion to the Spanish monarchy . One of them feemed to have been retained as advocate for the Duke of ...
... learning . At a coffee - houfe near the Temple , I found a couple of young gentlemen engaged very finartly in a difpute on the fucceffion to the Spanish monarchy . One of them feemed to have been retained as advocate for the Duke of ...
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Joseph Addison. lerio . Valerio had an univerfal character , was genteel , had learning , thought justly , spoke correctly ; it was be- lieved there was nothing in which Valerio did not excel ; and it was fo far true , that there was but ...
Joseph Addison. lerio . Valerio had an univerfal character , was genteel , had learning , thought justly , spoke correctly ; it was be- lieved there was nothing in which Valerio did not excel ; and it was fo far true , that there was but ...
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... learning , as it is of more confequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong , than to fettle the distance of the planets , and compute the times of their circumvolutions . • One ' One good effect that will ...
... learning , as it is of more confequence to adjust the true nature and measures of right and wrong , than to fettle the distance of the planets , and compute the times of their circumvolutions . • One ' One good effect that will ...
Page 92
... learning and philofophy , and loved to aftonish themselves with the apprehenfions of witchcraft , pro- digies , charms , and inchantments . There was not a vil- lage in England that had not a ghoft in it , the church- yards were all ...
... learning and philofophy , and loved to aftonish themselves with the apprehenfions of witchcraft , pro- digies , charms , and inchantments . There was not a vil- lage in England that had not a ghoft in it , the church- yards were all ...
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... learning in a treatife on the most indifferent fubject . I have read a difcourfe upon love , which none but a pro- found chymift could understand , and have heard many a fermon that fhould only have been preached before a congregation ...
... learning in a treatife on the most indifferent fubject . I have read a difcourfe upon love , which none but a pro- found chymift could understand , and have heard many a fermon that fhould only have been preached before a congregation ...
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