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But since I have now gained the faculty , I have been long endeavouring after , I
intend to make a right use of it , and shall think iny self obliged , for the future , to
speak always in truth and sincerity of heart . While a man is learning to fence , he
...
But since I have now gained the faculty , I have been long endeavouring after , I
intend to make a right use of it , and shall think iny self obliged , for the future , to
speak always in truth and sincerity of heart . While a man is learning to fence , he
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interests but those of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but those of vice and folly .
Tho'l make inore lioise in the world that I uted to do , I am till resolve : to act in it as
213 inciiferent Spectator . It is not my aunbition to increase the number either ...
interests but those of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but those of vice and folly .
Tho'l make inore lioise in the world that I uted to do , I am till resolve : to act in it as
213 inciiferent Spectator . It is not my aunbition to increase the number either ...
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This notion , as most others of theirs , is a composition of truth and error . That
matter is eternal , that from the first union of a soul to it , it perverted its inclinations
, and that the ill influence it hath upon the mind is not to be corrected by God ...
This notion , as most others of theirs , is a composition of truth and error . That
matter is eternal , that from the first union of a soul to it , it perverted its inclinations
, and that the ill influence it hath upon the mind is not to be corrected by God ...
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... notice , that love comes after marriage ; I hope your readers are satisfied of this
truth , that as lore generally produces matrimony , so it often happens that
matrimony produces love . ' It perhaps requires more virtues to make a good hus•
band ...
... notice , that love comes after marriage ; I hope your readers are satisfied of this
truth , that as lore generally produces matrimony , so it often happens that
matrimony produces love . ' It perhaps requires more virtues to make a good hus•
band ...
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He told her the truth without reserve , believing that he had met a ghost : upon
which the spoke to him in the following manner : Stranger , thou art in my power ;
I am a murderer as thou art . Know then , that I am a nun of a noble family . A
base ...
He told her the truth without reserve , believing that he had met a ghost : upon
which the spoke to him in the following manner : Stranger , thou art in my power ;
I am a murderer as thou art . Know then , that I am a nun of a noble family . A
base ...
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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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