The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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Page 24
... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the fame of Mr. Dryden , and know feveral of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the fame humour . I might likewife refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on this fubject ...
... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the fame of Mr. Dryden , and know feveral of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the fame humour . I might likewife refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on this fubject ...
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... pleasures , and defiring again to enter the body that gave them an opportunity of fulfill- ing them . Some of our moft eminent divines have made ufe of this Platonic notion , fo far as it regards the fubfiftence of our paffions after ...
... pleasures , and defiring again to enter the body that gave them an opportunity of fulfill- ing them . Some of our moft eminent divines have made ufe of this Platonic notion , fo far as it regards the fubfiftence of our paffions after ...
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... Pleasures of a Country Life . The Government of the Tongue . A letter dated from Cheap- fide defires me that I would advise all young wives to make themselves miftreffes of Wingate's Arithmetic , and concludes with a postscript , that ...
... Pleasures of a Country Life . The Government of the Tongue . A letter dated from Cheap- fide defires me that I would advise all young wives to make themselves miftreffes of Wingate's Arithmetic , and concludes with a postscript , that ...
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... pleasure on the past . HE laft method which I proposed in my Satur- life which are fo tedious and burdenfome to idle peo- ple , is the employing ourselves in the pursuit of know- ledge . I remember Mr. Boyle , fpeaking of a certain ...
... pleasure on the past . HE laft method which I proposed in my Satur- life which are fo tedious and burdenfome to idle peo- ple , is the employing ourselves in the pursuit of know- ledge . I remember Mr. Boyle , fpeaking of a certain ...
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... pleasure , I cannot but think the good fenfe of them will be as agreeable to the town as any thing I could fay either on the topics they treat of , or any other . They both allude to former papers of mine , and I do not queftion but the ...
... pleasure , I cannot but think the good fenfe of them will be as agreeable to the town as any thing I could fay either on the topics they treat of , or any other . They both allude to former papers of mine , and I do not queftion but the ...
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