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Page 18
A couple of courtiers , making professions of esteem , would make the fame
figure after breach of promise , as two knights of the post convicted of perjury . But
converfation is fallen fo low in point of morality , that as they fay in a bargain , Let
the ...
A couple of courtiers , making professions of esteem , would make the fame
figure after breach of promise , as two knights of the post convicted of perjury . But
converfation is fallen fo low in point of morality , that as they fay in a bargain , Let
the ...
Page 97
SOME ludicrous schoolmen have put the case , that if an ass were placed
between two bundles of hay , which affected his senses equally on each side ,
and tempted him in the very fame degree , whether it would be poflible for him to
eat of ...
SOME ludicrous schoolmen have put the case , that if an ass were placed
between two bundles of hay , which affected his senses equally on each side ,
and tempted him in the very fame degree , whether it would be poflible for him to
eat of ...
Page 98
They all of them have the same pretensions to good - luck , stand upon the fame
foot of competition , and no manner of reason can be given why a man should
prefer one to the other before the lottery is drawn . In this case therefore caprice ...
They all of them have the same pretensions to good - luck , stand upon the fame
foot of competition , and no manner of reason can be given why a man should
prefer one to the other before the lottery is drawn . In this case therefore caprice ...
Page 216
1 who are capable of worthy actions ; but methinks one may divide the general
word Fame into three different species , as it regards the different orders of
mankind who have any thing to do with it . Fame therefore may be divided into
glory ...
1 who are capable of worthy actions ; but methinks one may divide the general
word Fame into three different species , as it regards the different orders of
mankind who have any thing to do with it . Fame therefore may be divided into
glory ...
Page 263
... and , if he compares this translation with the original , will find that the three first
stanzas are rendered alınoft word for word , and not only with the fame elegance ,
but with the fame short turn of expression which is so remarkable in the Greek ...
... and , if he compares this translation with the original , will find that the three first
stanzas are rendered alınoft word for word , and not only with the fame elegance ,
but with the fame short turn of expression which is so remarkable in the Greek ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 3 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | John Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2011 |
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