“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Page 12
... Some to undo , and fome to be undone ; I fay , when I behold this vast variety of perfons and hu- mours , with the pains they both take for the accomplish- ment of the ends mentioned in the above verses of Denham , I cannot much wonder ...
... Some to undo , and fome to be undone ; I fay , when I behold this vast variety of perfons and hu- mours , with the pains they both take for the accomplish- ment of the ends mentioned in the above verses of Denham , I cannot much wonder ...
Page 39
... SOME of our most eminent divines have made use of this Platonic notion , fo far as it regards the fubfiftence of our paffions after death , with great beauty and ftrength of reafon . Plato indeed carries his thought very far , when he ...
... SOME of our most eminent divines have made use of this Platonic notion , fo far as it regards the fubfiftence of our paffions after death , with great beauty and ftrength of reafon . Plato indeed carries his thought very far , when he ...
Page 70
... some months after his departure , or to tell it in Monfieur Paradin's own words , The women that , like fnails in a fright , had drawn in their horns , fhot them out again as foon as the danger was over . ' This extravagance of the ...
... some months after his departure , or to tell it in Monfieur Paradin's own words , The women that , like fnails in a fright , had drawn in their horns , fhot them out again as foon as the danger was over . ' This extravagance of the ...
Page 78
... Some eminent hiftorian may them probably arife that will not write recentibus odiis ( as Ta- citus expreffes it ) with the paffions and prejudices of a contemporary author , but make an impartial diftribution of fame among the great men ...
... Some eminent hiftorian may them probably arife that will not write recentibus odiis ( as Ta- citus expreffes it ) with the paffions and prejudices of a contemporary author , but make an impartial diftribution of fame among the great men ...
Page 94
... Some of them could not refrain from tears at the fight of their old master ; every one of them preffed forward to do fomething for him , and feemed difcouraged if they were not employed . At the fame time the good old knight , with a ...
... Some of them could not refrain from tears at the fight of their old master ; every one of them preffed forward to do fomething for him , and feemed difcouraged if they were not employed . At the fame time the good old knight , with a ...
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