“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... creatures groaning under their refpective burdens , and to confider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay be- fore me . THERE were however feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one ...
... creatures groaning under their refpective burdens , and to confider that prodigious bulk of human calamities which lay be- fore me . THERE were however feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one ...
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... creatures with fentiments of humanity and compaffion . No. 560 . Monday , June 28 . --- Verba intermissa retentat . Ovid . Met . 1. 1. v . 746 . He tries his tongue , his filence foftly breaks . E Dryden . VERY one has heard of the ...
... creatures with fentiments of humanity and compaffion . No. 560 . Monday , June 28 . --- Verba intermissa retentat . Ovid . Met . 1. 1. v . 746 . He tries his tongue , his filence foftly breaks . E Dryden . VERY one has heard of the ...
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... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , • and the next morning fends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may pofitively fay , that he has broke me a child's ...
... creature in the world . When he is angry he breaks all my china - ware that chances to lie in his way , • and the next morning fends me in twice as much as he broke the day before . I may pofitively fay , that he has broke me a child's ...
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... creatures which are at present more exalted than ourselves . We fee many ftars by the help of glaffes , which we do not discover with our naked eyes ; and the finer our telescopes are , the more ftill are our discoveries . Huygenius ...
... creatures which are at present more exalted than ourselves . We fee many ftars by the help of glaffes , which we do not discover with our naked eyes ; and the finer our telescopes are , the more ftill are our discoveries . Huygenius ...
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... creatures who fear they are not regard- ed by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trou ble them on this occafion : for as it is impoffible he should overlook any of his ...
... creatures who fear they are not regard- ed by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trou ble them on this occafion : for as it is impoffible he should overlook any of his ...
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