The Spectator, Volume 8J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... human calamities which lay before me . There were however feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloke , which , upon his ...
... human calamities which lay before me . There were however feveral perfons who gave me great diverfion upon this occafion . I obferved one bringing in a fardel very carefully concealed under an old embroidered cloke , which , upon his ...
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... human nature , and was in the hand of a great many fine people : this was called the Spleen . But what most of all surprised me , was a remark I made , that there was not a fingle vice or folly thrown into the whole heap at which I was ...
... human nature , and was in the hand of a great many fine people : this was called the Spleen . But what most of all surprised me , was a remark I made , that there was not a fingle vice or folly thrown into the whole heap at which I was ...
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... humanity and compaffion . N ° 560 Monday , June 28 . Verba intermiffa retentat . OVID . Met . 1. 1. ver . He tries his tongue , his filence foftly breaks . 746 . Dryden . E VERY one has heard of the famous conjurer , who , according to ...
... humanity and compaffion . N ° 560 Monday , June 28 . Verba intermiffa retentat . OVID . Met . 1. 1. ver . He tries his tongue , his filence foftly breaks . 746 . Dryden . E VERY one has heard of the famous conjurer , who , according to ...
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... human nature , will find it much more difficult to determine the value of their fellow - creatures , and that mens characters are not thus to be given in general words . There is in leed no fuch thing as a perfon in- tirely good or bad ...
... human nature , will find it much more difficult to determine the value of their fellow - creatures , and that mens characters are not thus to be given in general words . There is in leed no fuch thing as a perfon in- tirely good or bad ...
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... , religion bears a more tender re- gard to human nature . It prefcribes to every miser- able man the means of bettering his condition ; nay , it fhews fhews him that the bearing of his afflictions as he 82 N ° 574 THE SPECTATOR .
... , religion bears a more tender re- gard to human nature . It prefcribes to every miser- able man the means of bettering his condition ; nay , it fhews fhews him that the bearing of his afflictions as he 82 N ° 574 THE SPECTATOR .
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