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... pleasure to those who executed it under you , at the fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happiness of having it conveyed through your hands . A fecretary of ftate , in the in tereft of mankind , joined ...
... pleasure to those who executed it under you , at the fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happiness of having it conveyed through your hands . A fecretary of ftate , in the in tereft of mankind , joined ...
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... pleasure on the dangers they have escaped , and look back with as much fatif- faction on the perils that threatened them , as their great - grandmothers did formerly on the burning plough - fhares , after having paffed through the ...
... pleasure on the dangers they have escaped , and look back with as much fatif- faction on the perils that threatened them , as their great - grandmothers did formerly on the burning plough - fhares , after having paffed through the ...
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... pleasure or his profit . There is nothing of greater importance to us than thus diligently to fift our thoughts , and examine all thefe dark receffes of the mind , if we would esta- blifh our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue ...
... pleasure or his profit . There is nothing of greater importance to us than thus diligently to fift our thoughts , and examine all thefe dark receffes of the mind , if we would esta- blifh our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue ...
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... foft flutes The filver cars kept time ; and , while they play'd , The hearing gave new pleasure to the fight , And both to thought- VOL . VI . + c Here Here the imagination is warmed with all the ob- jects No. 400. THE SPECTATOR . 25.
... foft flutes The filver cars kept time ; and , while they play'd , The hearing gave new pleasure to the fight , And both to thought- VOL . VI . + c Here Here the imagination is warmed with all the ob- jects No. 400. THE SPECTATOR . 25.
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... pleasures to ⚫ the unhappy . AMORET . ' I muft defire you , dear Mr. SPECTATOR , to publifh this my letter to Philander as foon as poffi- ble , and to affure him that I know nothing at all of the death of his rich uncle in ...
... pleasures to ⚫ the unhappy . AMORET . ' I muft defire you , dear Mr. SPECTATOR , to publifh this my letter to Philander as foon as poffi- ble , and to affure him that I know nothing at all of the death of his rich uncle in ...
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