The Spectator, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 21
... to a fhilling , by the help of numbers , the profit or lofs by my adventure ; but I ought alfo to be able to fhew that I had reason for making it , either from C my my own experience , or that of other people , THE SPECTATOR . 21.
... to a fhilling , by the help of numbers , the profit or lofs by my adventure ; but I ought alfo to be able to fhew that I had reason for making it , either from C my my own experience , or that of other people , THE SPECTATOR . 21.
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... reason I take it to be your duty to keep us above contempt . I do not know whether I make myself understood in the representation of an hen - peckt life , but I fhall take leave to give you an account of myself , and my own fpoufe . You ...
... reason I take it to be your duty to keep us above contempt . I do not know whether I make myself understood in the representation of an hen - peckt life , but I fhall take leave to give you an account of myself , and my own fpoufe . You ...
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... reason and duty ; for if , notwithstanding it's general benevolence to mankind , it makes no diftinction between its objects , if it exerts itself promifcuoufly towards the deferving and undeferving , if it relieves alike the idle and ...
... reason and duty ; for if , notwithstanding it's general benevolence to mankind , it makes no diftinction between its objects , if it exerts itself promifcuoufly towards the deferving and undeferving , if it relieves alike the idle and ...
Page 41
... reason of fome remote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of thofe who read them ; did they know how many glances of ill - nature are industriously avoided for fear of doing in- jury to the reputation of another ...
... reason of fome remote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of thofe who read them ; did they know how many glances of ill - nature are industriously avoided for fear of doing in- jury to the reputation of another ...
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... reason to imagine that their numbers have fince increased ; and therefore with one third part of that province that prince can have gained no more than one third part of the inhabi- tants , or 250,000 new fubjects , even though it ...
... reason to imagine that their numbers have fince increased ; and therefore with one third part of that province that prince can have gained no more than one third part of the inhabi- tants , or 250,000 new fubjects , even though it ...
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