The Spectator, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 33
... seems to have been brought up with an Eye to the Law , taken the Debate into his Hand , and given it , as his Opinion , that neither Count Rechteren , nor Monsieur Mesnager had behav'd themselves right in this Affair . Count Rechteren ...
... seems to have been brought up with an Eye to the Law , taken the Debate into his Hand , and given it , as his Opinion , that neither Count Rechteren , nor Monsieur Mesnager had behav'd themselves right in this Affair . Count Rechteren ...
Page 34
... seems a Woman of Letters , asks me whether I am for establishing the Salick Law in every Family , and why it is not fit that a Woman who has Dis cretion and Learning should sit at the Helm , when the Husband is weak and illiterate ...
... seems a Woman of Letters , asks me whether I am for establishing the Salick Law in every Family , and why it is not fit that a Woman who has Dis cretion and Learning should sit at the Helm , when the Husband is weak and illiterate ...
Page 41
... seem very marvelous to a sawcy Modern , that Multum sanguinis , multum vere cundiae , multum sollicitudinis in ore ; To have the Face first full of Blood , then the Countenance dash'd with Modesty , and then the whole Aspect as of one ...
... seem very marvelous to a sawcy Modern , that Multum sanguinis , multum vere cundiae , multum sollicitudinis in ore ; To have the Face first full of Blood , then the Countenance dash'd with Modesty , and then the whole Aspect as of one ...
Page 42
... seems to acknowledge no Superior , and to defy all Contradiction , prevail over that Deference and Resignation with which the modest Man implores that favourable Opinion which the other seems to command , As the Case at present stands ...
... seems to acknowledge no Superior , and to defy all Contradiction , prevail over that Deference and Resignation with which the modest Man implores that favourable Opinion which the other seems to command , As the Case at present stands ...
Page 44
... seem to the Reader the greatest Paradox in the Reflection of the Historian , is , I suppose , that Folly , which is generally thought incapable of contriving or executing any Design , should be so formidable to those whom it exerts it ...
... seem to the Reader the greatest Paradox in the Reflection of the Historian , is , I suppose , that Folly , which is generally thought incapable of contriving or executing any Design , should be so formidable to those whom it exerts it ...
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