The Spectator: ...Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... means I have made my felf a fpeculative flatefinan , foldier , merchant , and artifan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well verfed in the theory of a husband or a father ; and can discern the rrors in ...
... means I have made my felf a fpeculative flatefinan , foldier , merchant , and artifan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well verfed in the theory of a husband or a father ; and can discern the rrors in ...
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... mean time , when I confider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and fince I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fulness of my heart in fpeech , I am re- folved to do it in ...
... mean time , when I confider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and fince I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fulness of my heart in fpeech , I am re- folved to do it in ...
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... mean , that I fhall not lower but exalt the fubjects I treat upon . Difcourfe for their entertainment , is not to be ... means , love , dur- ing the time of my fpeculations , fhall be carried on with the fame fincerity as any other ...
... mean , that I fhall not lower but exalt the fubjects I treat upon . Difcourfe for their entertainment , is not to be ... means , love , dur- ing the time of my fpeculations , fhall be carried on with the fame fincerity as any other ...
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... means I perceived that the fparrows were to act the part of finging birds in a delightful grove ; though upon a ... mean time , to find out a more agree- able entertainment for the winter - feafon , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with ...
... means I perceived that the fparrows were to act the part of finging birds in a delightful grove ; though upon a ... mean time , to find out a more agree- able entertainment for the winter - feafon , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with ...
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... means cleared the place of those little noxious animals . Before I difinifs this paper , I must inform my reader , that I hear there is a treaty on foot with London and Wife ( who will be appointed gardeners of the play- houfe ) to ...
... means cleared the place of those little noxious animals . Before I difinifs this paper , I must inform my reader , that I hear there is a treaty on foot with London and Wife ( who will be appointed gardeners of the play- houfe ) to ...
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