The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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... ftill for de- riving every action from fome plot and contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual scheme of causes and events , and preferving a conftant correfpondence between the camp and the council - table . And thus it happens in the ...
... ftill for de- riving every action from fome plot and contrivance , for drawing up a perpetual scheme of causes and events , and preferving a conftant correfpondence between the camp and the council - table . And thus it happens in the ...
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... ftill another fecret that can never fail , if you can once get it believed , and which is often practifed by women of greater cunning than virtue : This is to change fides for a while with , the jealous man , and to turn his own paffion ...
... ftill another fecret that can never fail , if you can once get it believed , and which is often practifed by women of greater cunning than virtue : This is to change fides for a while with , the jealous man , and to turn his own paffion ...
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... ftill found her cold and in- credulous , he inconfiderately told her , as a certain inftance of her Lord's affection , the private orders he had left behind him , which plainly fhewed , ac- cording to Jofeph's interpretation , that he ...
... ftill found her cold and in- credulous , he inconfiderately told her , as a certain inftance of her Lord's affection , the private orders he had left behind him , which plainly fhewed , ac- cording to Jofeph's interpretation , that he ...
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... ftill called eloquence in the latter , though thus unjustly employed : But refolution in an affaffin is according to reafon quite as laudable , as knowledge and wifdom exercised in the defence of an ill caufe ... Were the intention ...
... ftill called eloquence in the latter , though thus unjustly employed : But refolution in an affaffin is according to reafon quite as laudable , as knowledge and wifdom exercised in the defence of an ill caufe ... Were the intention ...
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... ftill a reigning mode among us . At the fame ' time we have a fet of gentlemen who take the li- berty to appear in all publick places without any buttons to their coats , which they fupply with feveral little filver hafps , though our ...
... ftill a reigning mode among us . At the fame ' time we have a fet of gentlemen who take the li- berty to appear in all publick places without any buttons to their coats , which they fupply with feveral little filver hafps , though our ...
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