The Spectator, Volumes 1-2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 191
... Characters . There is no Man who loves his Bottle or his Mistress , in a manner so very abandoned , as not to be capable of relishing an agreeable Character , that is no way a Slave to either of those Pursuits . A Man that is Tem perate ...
... Characters . There is no Man who loves his Bottle or his Mistress , in a manner so very abandoned , as not to be capable of relishing an agreeable Character , that is no way a Slave to either of those Pursuits . A Man that is Tem perate ...
Page 247
... Character ; and I know not how to account for it , unless it may possibly be in Complaisance to those narrow Minds who can have no Notion of the same Person's possessing different Accomplishments ; or that it is a sort of Sacrifice ...
... Character ; and I know not how to account for it , unless it may possibly be in Complaisance to those narrow Minds who can have no Notion of the same Person's possessing different Accomplishments ; or that it is a sort of Sacrifice ...
Page 318
... Character , it is rather awful than amiable . Justice seems most agreeable to the Nature of God , and Mercy to that ... Characters in Human Nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so exquisitely Ridiculous , as that of a rigid ...
... Character , it is rather awful than amiable . Justice seems most agreeable to the Nature of God , and Mercy to that ... Characters in Human Nature , there is none so odious , nor indeed so exquisitely Ridiculous , as that of a rigid ...
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