“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... eye to thefe principles , whatever party he is of , he cannot fail of being a good Englishman , and a lover of his country . tue ; As for the perfons concerned in this work , the names of all of them , or at least of fuch as defire it ...
... eye to thefe principles , whatever party he is of , he cannot fail of being a good Englishman , and a lover of his country . tue ; As for the perfons concerned in this work , the names of all of them , or at least of fuch as defire it ...
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... eyes . I no fooner faw my face in it , but I was ftartled at the fhortnefs of it , which now appeared to me in its utmost aggravation . The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance ...
... eyes . I no fooner faw my face in it , but I was ftartled at the fhortnefs of it , which now appeared to me in its utmost aggravation . The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance ...
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... eyes towards heaven , and fixed them upon Jupiter : her name was PATIENCE . She had no fooner placed herself by the mount of forrows , but , what I thought very remarkable , the whole heap funk to fuch a degree , that it did not appear ...
... eyes towards heaven , and fixed them upon Jupiter : her name was PATIENCE . She had no fooner placed herself by the mount of forrows , but , what I thought very remarkable , the whole heap funk to fuch a degree , that it did not appear ...
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... eye , we should find most of them either deficient and lame in feveral parts , produced by a bad ambition , or directed to an ill end . The very fame action may fome- times be fo oddly circumftanced , that it is difficult to de- termine ...
... eye , we should find most of them either deficient and lame in feveral parts , produced by a bad ambition , or directed to an ill end . The very fame action may fome- times be fo oddly circumftanced , that it is difficult to de- termine ...
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... eye a new picture of nature which was more finely fhaded , and difpofed among fofter lights , than that which the fun had before difcovered to us . As I was furveying the moon walking in her bright- nefs , and taking her progrefs among ...
... eye a new picture of nature which was more finely fhaded , and difpofed among fofter lights , than that which the fun had before difcovered to us . As I was furveying the moon walking in her bright- nefs , and taking her progrefs among ...
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