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Page 21
The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features ;
one was trucking a lock of grey hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a
short waist for a pair of round shoulders , and a third cheapening a bad face for a
...
The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features ;
one was trucking a lock of grey hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a
short waist for a pair of round shoulders , and a third cheapening a bad face for a
...
Page 42
In short , to speak of him in the language of the old philofophy , he is a being
whose centre is every where , and his circumference no where . In the second
place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience indeed
necessarily ...
In short , to speak of him in the language of the old philofophy , he is a being
whose centre is every where , and his circumference no where . In the second
place , he is omniscient as well as omnipresent . His omniscience indeed
necessarily ...
Page 45
The reason of • this most certainly is , that the very essence of good• breeding
and politeness confifts in several niceties , which are so minute that they escape
his observation , and he * falls short of the original he would copy after ; but when
...
The reason of • this most certainly is , that the very essence of good• breeding
and politeness confifts in several niceties , which are so minute that they escape
his observation , and he * falls short of the original he would copy after ; but when
...
Page 63
I LATELY dropped into a coffee - house at Westminster , where I found the room
hung round with ornaments of this nature , There were elixirs , tinctures , the
Anodine Fotus , English pills , electuaries , and , in short , more remedies than I ...
I LATELY dropped into a coffee - house at Westminster , where I found the room
hung round with ornaments of this nature , There were elixirs , tinctures , the
Anodine Fotus , English pills , electuaries , and , in short , more remedies than I ...
Page 75
His first life is short and transient ; his second permanent and lasting . The
question we are all concerned in is this , in which of these two lives it is our chief
interest to make ourselves happy ? or , in other words , whether we should
endeavour ...
His first life is short and transient ; his second permanent and lasting . The
question we are all concerned in is this , in which of these two lives it is our chief
interest to make ourselves happy ? or , in other words , whether we should
endeavour ...
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| Title | “The” Spectator ... Volume 8 of “The” Spectator |
| Publisher | J. Wood, 1761 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2019 |
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