The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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Page 44
... tell you , but indeed this is one of my paftimes . Hitherto I have only told you the general temper of my mind , but how fhall I give you an account of the diftraction of it ? Could but conceive how cruel I am one moment in e my ...
... tell you , but indeed this is one of my paftimes . Hitherto I have only told you the general temper of my mind , but how fhall I give you an account of the diftraction of it ? Could but conceive how cruel I am one moment in e my ...
Page 65
... tell us , that Achilles , in the first Iliad , represents anger , or the irafcible part of human nature ; that upon drawing his fword against his fuperior in a full affembly , Palla's is only another name for rea- fon , which checks and ...
... tell us , that Achilles , in the first Iliad , represents anger , or the irafcible part of human nature ; that upon drawing his fword against his fuperior in a full affembly , Palla's is only another name for rea- fon , which checks and ...
Page 66
... telling it as foon as he had gathered an audience about him . After this fhort preface , which I have made up of fuch materials as my memory does at prefent fuggeft to me , before I prefent my reader with a fable of this kind , which I ...
... telling it as foon as he had gathered an audience about him . After this fhort preface , which I have made up of fuch materials as my memory does at prefent fuggeft to me , before I prefent my reader with a fable of this kind , which I ...
Page 77
... tell me all this is only fan- cy and delufion ? Is there any merit in being the meffenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , fince it makes me both the happier and ( better man . 2 • I must confefs I do not know how to ...
... tell me all this is only fan- cy and delufion ? Is there any merit in being the meffenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , fince it makes me both the happier and ( better man . 2 • I must confefs I do not know how to ...
Page 90
... tell him that might overcomes right , if it does not discover his reafon to be depraved and that he is either fool or mad , as the cholerick old Gentleman tells him , we may at least allow that the father will do very well in ...
... tell him that might overcomes right , if it does not discover his reafon to be depraved and that he is either fool or mad , as the cholerick old Gentleman tells him , we may at least allow that the father will do very well in ...
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