The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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Page 47
... mankind from having any thing to do with their writings . A man must have vir- tue in him , before he will enter upon the reading of a Seneca or an Epictetus . The very title of a moral treatise has fomething in it auftere and fhock ...
... mankind from having any thing to do with their writings . A man must have vir- tue in him , before he will enter upon the reading of a Seneca or an Epictetus . The very title of a moral treatise has fomething in it auftere and fhock ...
Page 48
... mankind , but are ftifled in their birth by reason of some re- mote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of those who read them ; did they know how many glances of ill - nature are induftriously a- voided for fear of ...
... mankind , but are ftifled in their birth by reason of some re- mote tendency which they carry in them to corrupt the minds of those who read them ; did they know how many glances of ill - nature are induftriously a- voided for fear of ...
Page 53
... mankind into different fexes , that every woman may have ' her husband , and that both may equally contri- bute to the continuance of the fpecies . It fol- ' lows then , that for all the men that have been loft , as many women must have ...
... mankind into different fexes , that every woman may have ' her husband , and that both may equally contri- bute to the continuance of the fpecies . It fol- ' lows then , that for all the men that have been loft , as many women must have ...
Page 63
... mankind thirty years ago , I should have avoided a life fpent in poverty and fhame . 6 . < . ' I am , SIR , Your moft humble fervant . ALICE THREADNEEDLE . " Mr. SPECTATOR , Round - Houfe , Sept. 9 . I AM a man of pleasure about town ...
... mankind thirty years ago , I should have avoided a life fpent in poverty and fhame . 6 . < . ' I am , SIR , Your moft humble fervant . ALICE THREADNEEDLE . " Mr. SPECTATOR , Round - Houfe , Sept. 9 . I AM a man of pleasure about town ...
Page 68
... mankind between them . Pleafure and Pain were no fooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleafure should take poffeffion of the virtu ous , and Pain of the vicious part of that fpecies ...
... mankind between them . Pleafure and Pain were no fooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleafure should take poffeffion of the virtu ous , and Pain of the vicious part of that fpecies ...
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