The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 56
... pleasure to the past . HE laft method which I propofed in my Satur- Tday's paper , for filling up thofe empty spaces of life which are fo tedious and burdenfome to idle people , is the employing ourselves in the purfuit of knowledge . I ...
... pleasure to the past . HE laft method which I propofed in my Satur- Tday's paper , for filling up thofe empty spaces of life which are fo tedious and burdenfome to idle people , is the employing ourselves in the purfuit of knowledge . I ...
Page 60
... 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 topicks they treat of , or any other . They both allude to former papers of mine , and I do not question but ...
... 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 topicks they treat of , or any other . They both allude to former papers of mine , and I do not question but ...
Page 66
... pleasure of lying on the ftairs of a tavern half a night , playing at dice with other fervants , and the like idleneffes . When my maf- ter was moneylefs , I was generally employ'd in tran- fcribing amorous pieces of poetry , old fongs ...
... pleasure of lying on the ftairs of a tavern half a night , playing at dice with other fervants , and the like idleneffes . When my maf- ter was moneylefs , I was generally employ'd in tran- fcribing amorous pieces of poetry , old fongs ...
Page 79
... pleasures of other men . Such people are valetudinarians in fociety , and they should no more come into company than a fick man fhould come into the air : If a man is too weak to bear what is a refresh- ment to men in health , he muft ...
... pleasures of other men . Such people are valetudinarians in fociety , and they should no more come into company than a fick man fhould come into the air : If a man is too weak to bear what is a refresh- ment to men in health , he muft ...
Page 80
... pleasures of life , Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure of hearing nothing which fhould fhock them , as well as expected what would please them . When we know every person that is spoken ...
... pleasures of life , Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure of hearing nothing which fhould fhock them , as well as expected what would please them . When we know every person that is spoken ...
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