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Page 15
Were the Intention stedfastly considered , as the Measure of Approbation , all
Falshood would soon be out of Countenance ; and an Address in imposing upon
Mankind , would be as contemptible in one State of Life as another , A couple of ...
Were the Intention stedfastly considered , as the Measure of Approbation , all
Falshood would soon be out of Countenance ; and an Address in imposing upon
Mankind , would be as contemptible in one State of Life as another , A couple of ...
Page 16
These exalted Spirits would 171L rather be secretly the Authors of Events which
are serviceable to Mankind , than without being such , to have the publick Fame
of it . Where therefore an eminent Merit is robbed by Artifice or Detraction , it does
...
These exalted Spirits would 171L rather be secretly the Authors of Events which
are serviceable to Mankind , than without being such , to have the publick Fame
of it . Where therefore an eminent Merit is robbed by Artifice or Detraction , it does
...
Page 23
... he takes nothing from the industrious Labourer ; he pays the poor Man for his
Work ; he communicates his Profit with Mankind ; by the Preparation of his Cargo
and the Manufacture of his Returns , he furnishes Employment and Subsistance ...
... he takes nothing from the industrious Labourer ; he pays the poor Man for his
Work ; he communicates his Profit with Mankind ; by the Preparation of his Cargo
and the Manufacture of his Returns , he furnishes Employment and Subsistance ...
Page 33
Such a transient Temporary Good - nature as this , is not that Philanthrophie , that
Love of Mankind , which deserves the Title of a Moral Virtue . The next way of a
Man's bringing his Good - nature to the Test is , to consider whether it operates ...
Such a transient Temporary Good - nature as this , is not that Philanthrophie , that
Love of Mankind , which deserves the Title of a Moral Virtue . The next way of a
Man's bringing his Good - nature to the Test is , to consider whether it operates ...
Page 41
... which a discreet Author in Modesty suppresses how many Stroaks of Railery
present themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary Taste of Mankind
, but are stifled in their Birth by reason of some remote Tendency which they carry
...
... which a discreet Author in Modesty suppresses how many Stroaks of Railery
present themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary Taste of Mankind
, but are stifled in their Birth by reason of some remote Tendency which they carry
...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 2 Everyman's library. Essays Everyman's library: Essays and belles lettres The Spectator, George Gregory Smith |
| Authors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Editor | George Gregory Smith |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Company, 1924 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2016 |
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