The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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... themselves no more . We may fee by what has been faid , that jealoufy takes the deepeft root in men of amorous difpofi- and of those we may find three kinds who are moft over - run with it . tions ; The first are those who are conscious ...
... themselves no more . We may fee by what has been faid , that jealoufy takes the deepeft root in men of amorous difpofi- and of those we may find three kinds who are moft over - run with it . tions ; The first are those who are conscious ...
Page 7
... themselves with fan cies of their own raifing . They generally act in a disguise themselves , and therefore mistake all out- ward fhows and appearances for hypocrify in others ; fo that I believe no men fee lefs of the truth and reality ...
... themselves with fan cies of their own raifing . They generally act in a disguise themselves , and therefore mistake all out- ward fhows and appearances for hypocrify in others ; fo that I believe no men fee lefs of the truth and reality ...
Page 27
... way for fuch new mafters as have been more exact- in their accounts than themselves ; and certainly he deferves the eftate a great deal better , who has got C 2 it it by his industry , than he who has loft NO 174 . 27 THE SPECTATOR .
... way for fuch new mafters as have been more exact- in their accounts than themselves ; and certainly he deferves the eftate a great deal better , who has got C 2 it it by his industry , than he who has loft NO 174 . 27 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 31
... themselves are wits . The following letter comes to me from Exeter , and being credibly informed that what it contains is matter of fact , I fhall give it my reader as it was fent me . • Mr. SPECTATOR , Exeter , Sep. 7 . You U were ...
... themselves are wits . The following letter comes to me from Exeter , and being credibly informed that what it contains is matter of fact , I fhall give it my reader as it was fent me . • Mr. SPECTATOR , Exeter , Sep. 7 . You U were ...
Page 48
... themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary taste of mankind , but are ftifled in their birth by reason of some re- mote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of those who read them ; did they know how many ...
... themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary taste of mankind , but are ftifled in their birth by reason of some re- mote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of those who read them ; did they know how many ...
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