“The” Spectator, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... most tender hypocrify , are able to give any fatisfaction , where we are not perfuaded that the affection is real , and the fatisfaction mutual . For the jealous man wifhes him- felf a kind of deity to the perfon he loves : He would be ...
... most tender hypocrify , are able to give any fatisfaction , where we are not perfuaded that the affection is real , and the fatisfaction mutual . For the jealous man wifhes him- felf a kind of deity to the perfon he loves : He would be ...
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... most over - run with it . The first are thofe who are confcious to themselves of any infirmity , whether it be weaknefs , old age , de- formity , ignorance , or the like . These men are fo well acquainted with the unamiable part of ...
... most over - run with it . The first are thofe who are confcious to themselves of any infirmity , whether it be weaknefs , old age , de- formity , ignorance , or the like . These men are fo well acquainted with the unamiable part of ...
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... most predominant , we learn from the modern hiftories of America , as well as from our own experience in this part of the world , that jealoufy is no northern paffion , but rages moft in thofe nations that lie nearest the influence of ...
... most predominant , we learn from the modern hiftories of America , as well as from our own experience in this part of the world , that jealoufy is no northern paffion , but rages moft in thofe nations that lie nearest the influence of ...
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... most fubject to it , it will be but fair to fhew by what means the paffion may be beft allayed , and thofe who are poffeffed with it fet at eafe . Other faults indeed are not under the wife's jurifdiction , and should , if poffible ...
... most fubject to it , it will be but fair to fhew by what means the paffion may be beft allayed , and thofe who are poffeffed with it fet at eafe . Other faults indeed are not under the wife's jurifdiction , and should , if poffible ...
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... most in- nocent virgin or difcreetest matron ; and there cannot be a more abject flavery in this world than to dote upon what we think we ought to condemn : Yet this must be our condition in all the parts of life , if we fuffer ...
... most in- nocent virgin or difcreetest matron ; and there cannot be a more abject flavery in this world than to dote upon what we think we ought to condemn : Yet this must be our condition in all the parts of life , if we fuffer ...
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