The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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... meet with more difquietude and uneafinefs than a fufpected wife , if we except the jealous husband .. But the great unhappiness of this paffion is , that it naturally tends to alienate the affection which it is fo folicitous to ingrofs ...
... meet with more difquietude and uneafinefs than a fufpected wife , if we except the jealous husband .. But the great unhappiness of this paffion is , that it naturally tends to alienate the affection which it is fo folicitous to ingrofs ...
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... meet with any thing like it in the polar circle . Our own nation is very temperately fituated in this refpect ; and if we meet with fome few difordered with the violence of this paffion , they are not the proper growth of our country ...
... meet with any thing like it in the polar circle . Our own nation is very temperately fituated in this refpect ; and if we meet with fome few difordered with the violence of this paffion , they are not the proper growth of our country ...
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Joseph Addison. meet in their turn with all the contempt and fcorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the con- trary , it is very probable a melancholy , dejected carriage , the ufual effects of injured innocence , may foften ...
Joseph Addison. meet in their turn with all the contempt and fcorn that is due to fo infolent a behaviour . On the con- trary , it is very probable a melancholy , dejected carriage , the ufual effects of injured innocence , may foften ...
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... meet danger , if excited by its own eagerness , and not the publick good , deferves the name of audacity , rather than of courage . THE HERE can be no greater injury to human foci- ety , than that good talents among men should B 2 be be ...
... meet danger , if excited by its own eagerness , and not the publick good , deferves the name of audacity , rather than of courage . THE HERE can be no greater injury to human foci- ety , than that good talents among men should B 2 be be ...
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