The Spectator, Volume 2Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... virtues are of a domeftic turn . The family is the proper province for private women to fhine in . If they must be fhewing their zeal for the public , let it not be against thofe who are perhaps of the fame family , or at least of the ...
... virtues are of a domeftic turn . The family is the proper province for private women to fhine in . If they must be fhewing their zeal for the public , let it not be against thofe who are perhaps of the fame family , or at least of the ...
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... virtue , when it is lodged in a body that feeins to have been prepared for the reception of vice ; in many fuch cafes the foul and the body do not feem to be fel- lows . Socrates , was an extraordinary inftance of this nature . There ...
... virtue , when it is lodged in a body that feeins to have been prepared for the reception of vice ; in many fuch cafes the foul and the body do not feem to be fel- lows . Socrates , was an extraordinary inftance of this nature . There ...
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... , " Yet innocence and virgin modefty , " Her virtue , and the confcience of her worth , That would be woo'd , and not unfought be won , D Vol . II . " Not " Not obvious , not obtrufive , but retir'd " THE SPECTATOR . 37.
... , " Yet innocence and virgin modefty , " Her virtue , and the confcience of her worth , That would be woo'd , and not unfought be won , D Vol . II . " Not " Not obvious , not obtrufive , but retir'd " THE SPECTATOR . 37.
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... virtue and desire , " Till the poor vanquifh'd maid diffolves away " In dreams all night , in fighs and tears all day . " When Craftin had uttered these verses with a tender- nefs which at orce spoke paffion and refpect , Honoria caft a ...
... virtue and desire , " Till the poor vanquifh'd maid diffolves away " In dreams all night , in fighs and tears all day . " When Craftin had uttered these verses with a tender- nefs which at orce spoke paffion and refpect , Honoria caft a ...
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... virtue , in the most general acceptation of the word . That particular scheme which comprehends the focial virtues , may give employment to the most industrious temper , and find a man in business more than the most active station of ...
... virtue , in the most general acceptation of the word . That particular scheme which comprehends the focial virtues , may give employment to the most industrious temper , and find a man in business more than the most active station of ...
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