“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Page 29
... use it . I AM , Sir , a perfon past being amorous , and do not give this information out of envy or jealoufy , but I am a real fufferer by it . Thefe lovers take , any thing for tea and coffee ; I faw one yefterday furfeit to make his C ...
... use it . I AM , Sir , a perfon past being amorous , and do not give this information out of envy or jealoufy , but I am a real fufferer by it . Thefe lovers take , any thing for tea and coffee ; I faw one yefterday furfeit to make his C ...
Page 39
... 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 grafts upon it his opinion of ghofts ...
... 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 grafts upon it his opinion of ghofts ...
Page 65
... use this means where the crime was but an ill effect arifing from a laudable cause , the fear of fhame . The King , at the fame time , fpoke with much grace upon the subject of inercy ; and repented of many acts of that kind which had a ...
... use this means where the crime was but an ill effect arifing from a laudable cause , the fear of fhame . The King , at the fame time , fpoke with much grace upon the subject of inercy ; and repented of many acts of that kind which had a ...
Page 83
... use to the public . I fhall have a general review on Thursday next ; to which you fhall be very welcome , if you will honour it with your prefence . .. " I am , & c . P. S. I teach young gentlemen the whole art of ' gallanting a fan ...
... use to the public . I fhall have a general review on Thursday next ; to which you fhall be very welcome , if you will honour it with your prefence . .. " I am , & c . P. S. I teach young gentlemen the whole art of ' gallanting a fan ...
Page 86
... use and practice among men . · WHEN the vice is placed in this contemptible light , he argues unanfwerably against it , in words und thoughts fo natural , that any man who reads them would imagine he himself could have been the author ...
... use and practice among men . · WHEN the vice is placed in this contemptible light , he argues unanfwerably against it , in words und thoughts fo natural , that any man who reads them would imagine he himself could have been the author ...
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