The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... Reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellishments of Wit ? When learning irradiates common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to fuch as your Lordship , that the Sciences owe the esteem which they ...
... Reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellishments of Wit ? When learning irradiates common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to fuch as your Lordship , that the Sciences owe the esteem which they ...
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... reason , when my friends take a furvey of my library , they are very much furprized to find , upon the shelf of folios , two long band - boxes ftand- ing upright among my books , until I let them fee that they are both of them lined ...
... reason , when my friends take a furvey of my library , they are very much furprized to find , upon the shelf of folios , two long band - boxes ftand- ing upright among my books , until I let them fee that they are both of them lined ...
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... reason for his refentment ; and I know no evil which touches all mankind fo much as this of the misbehaviour of fervants . The complaint of this letter runs wholly upon men- fervants ; and I can attribute the licentioufnefs which has at ...
... reason for his refentment ; and I know no evil which touches all mankind fo much as this of the misbehaviour of fervants . The complaint of this letter runs wholly upon men- fervants ; and I can attribute the licentioufnefs which has at ...
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... reason , fays Plato , that the fouls of the dead ap- pear frequently in cœmiteries , and hover about the places where their bodies are buried , as still hankering after their old brutal pleasures , and defiring again to enter the body ...
... reason , fays Plato , that the fouls of the dead ap- pear frequently in cœmiteries , and hover about the places where their bodies are buried , as still hankering after their old brutal pleasures , and defiring again to enter the body ...
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... reason they live almoft upon an equality in conver- fation ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this ...
... reason they live almoft upon an equality in conver- fation ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this ...
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