The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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Page 5
... use their utmoft In- dustry and Invention to derogate from it . But it is for Your Honour that those who are now Your Ene- mies were always fo . You have acted in fo much Confiftency with Your Self , and promoted the In- terefts of your ...
... use their utmoft In- dustry and Invention to derogate from it . But it is for Your Honour that those who are now Your Ene- mies were always fo . You have acted in fo much Confiftency with Your Self , and promoted the In- terefts of your ...
Page 51
... use of to imitate those Thunders , that in all Poetry , both facred and profane , are reprefented as the Arms of the Almighty . The tearing up the Hills , was not altogether fo daring a Thought as the former . We are , in fome measure ...
... use of to imitate those Thunders , that in all Poetry , both facred and profane , are reprefented as the Arms of the Almighty . The tearing up the Hills , was not altogether fo daring a Thought as the former . We are , in fome measure ...
Page 57
... Use of a certain Qualification ( which the wifer Part of Mankind look upon as at beft an indifferent thing , and generally a frivolous Circumftance ) fhews the ill Confequence of fuch Prepof- feffions . What I mean , is the Art , Skill ...
... Use of a certain Qualification ( which the wifer Part of Mankind look upon as at beft an indifferent thing , and generally a frivolous Circumftance ) fhews the ill Confequence of fuch Prepof- feffions . What I mean , is the Art , Skill ...
Page 72
... use the fame care in fashioning the Manners of their Scholars , as in forming their Tongues to the learned Languages . Where - ever the former is omitted , I cannot help agree- ing with Mr. Locke , That a Man must have a very ftrange ...
... use the fame care in fashioning the Manners of their Scholars , as in forming their Tongues to the learned Languages . Where - ever the former is omitted , I cannot help agree- ing with Mr. Locke , That a Man must have a very ftrange ...
Page 99
... use it when another is fpeaking , who ought to be heard with too much refpect , to admit of offering at that time from hand to hand the Snuff - Box . But Flavilla is fo far taken with her Behaviour in this kind , that fhe pulls out her ...
... use it when another is fpeaking , who ought to be heard with too much refpect , to admit of offering at that time from hand to hand the Snuff - Box . But Flavilla is fo far taken with her Behaviour in this kind , that fhe pulls out her ...
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