The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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Page 49
... sex ; for I have deferred furnishing my closet with authors , until I receive your advice in this particular , being your daily difciple and humble fervant , Leonora . " In answer to my fair difciple , whom I am very proud of , I must ...
... sex ; for I have deferred furnishing my closet with authors , until I receive your advice in this particular , being your daily difciple and humble fervant , Leonora . " In answer to my fair difciple , whom I am very proud of , I must ...
Page 62
... sex have an influence on the other , your paper may be a yet more general good . Your directing us to reading is certainly the beft means to our inftruction ; but I think , with you , • caution in that particular very useful , fince the ...
... sex have an influence on the other , your paper may be a yet more general good . Your directing us to reading is certainly the beft means to our inftruction ; but I think , with you , • caution in that particular very useful , fince the ...
Page 63
... sex fcholars . Indeed a little more philofophy , in order to the fubduing our paffions to our reafon , might be fometimes ferviceable , and a ⚫ treatise of that nature I fhould approve of , even in ex- change for " Theodofius , or the ...
... sex fcholars . Indeed a little more philofophy , in order to the fubduing our paffions to our reafon , might be fometimes ferviceable , and a ⚫ treatise of that nature I fhould approve of , even in ex- change for " Theodofius , or the ...
Page 76
... sex than chastity ; whether it be that we always prize those moft who are hardest to come at , or that nothing be- fides chastity with its collateral attendants , truth , fide- lity and conftancy , gives the man a property in the per ...
... sex than chastity ; whether it be that we always prize those moft who are hardest to come at , or that nothing be- fides chastity with its collateral attendants , truth , fide- lity and conftancy , gives the man a property in the per ...
Page 181
... sex . I do not know a finer piece of fatire on this part of womankind , than those lines of Mr. Dryden . " Our thoughtlefs fex is caught by outward form " And empty noife , and loves itself in man . " This is a fource of infinite ...
... sex . I do not know a finer piece of fatire on this part of womankind , than those lines of Mr. Dryden . " Our thoughtlefs fex is caught by outward form " And empty noife , and loves itself in man . " This is a fource of infinite ...
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