“The” Spectator, Volume 6J. Parsons, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 13
... humanity , and is very conspicuous in the characters of those who are looked upon as the greatest Philosophers among the Heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among Christians . A If ...
... humanity , and is very conspicuous in the characters of those who are looked upon as the greatest Philosophers among the Heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among Christians . A If ...
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... human nature in the prospect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation of it . \ For my own part I think the being of a God is so little to be ...
... human nature in the prospect of non - existence , that I cannot but wonder with many excellent writers , how it is possible for a man to outlive the expectation of it . \ For my own part I think the being of a God is so little to be ...
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... humanity , though at the same time it renders him so popular among all his country neigh- bours , that it is thought to have gone a good way in making him once or twice Knight of the shire . He cannot forbear this exercise of ...
... humanity , though at the same time it renders him so popular among all his country neigh- bours , that it is thought to have gone a good way in making him once or twice Knight of the shire . He cannot forbear this exercise of ...
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... human happiness , we very rarely meet with the practice of this virtue in the world . Every man is ready to give in a long catalogue of those virtues and good qualities he expects to find in the person of a friend , but very few of us ...
... human happiness , we very rarely meet with the practice of this virtue in the world . Every man is ready to give in a long catalogue of those virtues and good qualities he expects to find in the person of a friend , but very few of us ...
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... are com- mon to human nature , and which by a right improve- ment of them will produce a satiety of joy , and an un- interrupted happiness . At At the same time that I would engage my reader 42 NO . 387 . THE SPECTATOR .
... are com- mon to human nature , and which by a right improve- ment of them will produce a satiety of joy , and an un- interrupted happiness . At At the same time that I would engage my reader 42 NO . 387 . THE SPECTATOR .
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