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... mind of the reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not ...
... mind of the reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not ...
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... mind to any one lefs engaged than the was . Cynthio was mufing yesterday in the piaz za in Covent Garden , and was saying to himself , that he was a very ill man to go on in vifiting and pro- feffing love to Flavia , when his heart was ...
... mind to any one lefs engaged than the was . Cynthio was mufing yesterday in the piaz za in Covent Garden , and was saying to himself , that he was a very ill man to go on in vifiting and pro- feffing love to Flavia , when his heart was ...
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... The fecret imperfections of his mind . H DRYDEN YPOCRISY at the fashionable end of the town , is very different from hypocrify in the city . The 1 The modifh hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than 20 THE SPECTATOR . No. 399 .
... The fecret imperfections of his mind . H DRYDEN YPOCRISY at the fashionable end of the town , is very different from hypocrify in the city . The 1 The modifh hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than 20 THE SPECTATOR . No. 399 .
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... minds under the colour of virtues ? For my own part , I must own I never yet knew any party so just and reasonable ... mind , by which a thousand errors and fecret faults find admiffion , without be- ing obferved or taken notice of . A ...
... minds under the colour of virtues ? For my own part , I must own I never yet knew any party so just and reasonable ... mind , by which a thousand errors and fecret faults find admiffion , without be- ing obferved or taken notice of . A ...
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... mind , if we would esta- blifh our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue as will turn to account in that great day , when it must stand the teft of infinite wisdom and juftice . I shall conclude this effay with observing , that ...
... mind , if we would esta- blifh our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue as will turn to account in that great day , when it must stand the teft of infinite wisdom and juftice . I shall conclude this effay with observing , that ...
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