The Spectator, Volume 3J. Sharpe, 1808 |
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Page 96
... imagination makes to him of the future condition of his children , and to represent to himself the figure they shall bear in the world after he has left it . When his prospects of this kind are agreeable , his fondness gives as it were ...
... imagination makes to him of the future condition of his children , and to represent to himself the figure they shall bear in the world after he has left it . When his prospects of this kind are agreeable , his fondness gives as it were ...
Page 100
... imaginations this way . But as there are very many of her majesty's good sub- jects , who are extremely uneasy at their own seats in the country , where all from the skies to the cen- tre of the earth is their own , and have a mighty ...
... imaginations this way . But as there are very many of her majesty's good sub- jects , who are extremely uneasy at their own seats in the country , where all from the skies to the cen- tre of the earth is their own , and have a mighty ...
Page 126
... imagination is cloyed : and I am , with the utmost distress and confusion , to be- hold myself the cause of uneasy reflections to you , to be visited by stealth , and dwell for the future " with the two companions ( the most unfit for ...
... imagination is cloyed : and I am , with the utmost distress and confusion , to be- hold myself the cause of uneasy reflections to you , to be visited by stealth , and dwell for the future " with the two companions ( the most unfit for ...
Page 135
... imagination , and constitution . Devotion , when it does not lie under the check of reason , is very apt to degenerate into enthusiasm . When the mind finds herself very much inflamed with her devotions , she is too much inclined to ...
... imagination , and constitution . Devotion , when it does not lie under the check of reason , is very apt to degenerate into enthusiasm . When the mind finds herself very much inflamed with her devotions , she is too much inclined to ...
Page 138
... imagining that nothing more is necessary than property and supe- rior circumstances to support them in distinction , ap- pears in no way so much as in the domestic part of life . It is ordinary to feed their humours into un- natural ...
... imagining that nothing more is necessary than property and supe- rior circumstances to support them in distinction , ap- pears in no way so much as in the domestic part of life . It is ordinary to feed their humours into un- natural ...
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