The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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Page 88
... woman , rather than any vanity that I should profit by an opposition of your pretensions to those of your humble servant . Gloriana has very good sense , a quick relish of the satisfactions of life , and will not give herself , as the ...
... woman , rather than any vanity that I should profit by an opposition of your pretensions to those of your humble servant . Gloriana has very good sense , a quick relish of the satisfactions of life , and will not give herself , as the ...
Page 140
... woman of exemplary good breeding . But sure , to murder and to rob are less iniquities than to raise profit by abuses , as irreparable as taking away life ; but more grievous , as making it lastingly unhappy . To rob a lady at play of ...
... woman of exemplary good breeding . But sure , to murder and to rob are less iniquities than to raise profit by abuses , as irreparable as taking away life ; but more grievous , as making it lastingly unhappy . To rob a lady at play of ...
Page 422
... woman ; so as by Adam's hearken- ing to the voice of his wife , contrary to the express commandment of the living God , mankind by that her incantation 1 became the subject of labour , sor- row , and death ; the woman being given to man ...
... woman ; so as by Adam's hearken- ing to the voice of his wife , contrary to the express commandment of the living God , mankind by that her incantation 1 became the subject of labour , sor- row , and death ; the woman being given to man ...
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