The Spectator, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 13
... admiration which the aims at ; and the vain drefs or difcourfe of a man would deftroy the comelinefs of his thape , or goodness of his understanding . I fay the goodnefs of his understanding , for it is no lefs com- mon to fee men of ...
... admiration which the aims at ; and the vain drefs or difcourfe of a man would deftroy the comelinefs of his thape , or goodness of his understanding . I fay the goodnefs of his understanding , for it is no lefs com- mon to fee men of ...
Page 32
... admirable ground - work for the other . In order there- fore to try our good - nature , whether it arifes from the body or the mind , whether it be founded in the ani- mal or rational part of our nature ; in a word , whe- ther it be ...
... admirable ground - work for the other . In order there- fore to try our good - nature , whether it arifes from the body or the mind , whether it be founded in the ani- mal or rational part of our nature ; in a word , whe- ther it be ...
Page 43
... admiration of fome hundreds of perfons , who , as well as myfelf , were pre- • fent at this trial of fkill . Now , Sir , I humbly conceive , whatever you have determined of the grinners , the whiftlers ought to be encouraged , not only ...
... admiration of fome hundreds of perfons , who , as well as myfelf , were pre- • fent at this trial of fkill . Now , Sir , I humbly conceive , whatever you have determined of the grinners , the whiftlers ought to be encouraged , not only ...
Page 57
... admirable work . If we look into the finest profe - authors of antiquity , fuch as Cicero , Plato , Xenophon , and many others , we fhall find that this was likewife their favourite kind of fable . I fhall only farther obferve upon it ...
... admirable work . If we look into the finest profe - authors of antiquity , fuch as Cicero , Plato , Xenophon , and many others , we fhall find that this was likewife their favourite kind of fable . I fhall only farther obferve upon it ...
Page 70
... admirable inforcements of morality , which the Apoftle has drawn from the history of our blessed • Saviour . " If our modern infidels confidered thefe matters with that candour and ferioufnefs which they de- ferve , we fhould not fee ...
... admirable inforcements of morality , which the Apoftle has drawn from the history of our blessed • Saviour . " If our modern infidels confidered thefe matters with that candour and ferioufnefs which they de- ferve , we fhould not fee ...
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