The Spectator, Volume 3John Bell, 1776 - English essays |
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... . If therefore his temper be grave or fullen , you must not be too much pleafed with a jeft , or tranfported with any thing that is gay and diverting . If his beauty * be be none of the beft , you must be a 10 No 175 . THE SPECTATOR .
... . If therefore his temper be grave or fullen , you must not be too much pleafed with a jeft , or tranfported with any thing that is gay and diverting . If his beauty * be be none of the beft , you must be a 10 No 175 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... thing , will be fure to go beyond it in his fears and fufpicions . He will al- ways expect to be your chief confident , and where he finds himself kept out of a fecret , will believe there is more in it than there fhould be . And here ...
... thing , will be fure to go beyond it in his fears and fufpicions . He will al- ways expect to be your chief confident , and where he finds himself kept out of a fecret , will believe there is more in it than there fhould be . And here ...
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... thing in her prejudice , and immediately ordered her fervant to be ftretched upon the rack ; who in the extremity of his tortures confefed , that his miftrefs's mistress's averfion to the King arofe from fome- thing Sohemus 14 No 171 ...
... thing in her prejudice , and immediately ordered her fervant to be ftretched upon the rack ; who in the extremity of his tortures confefed , that his miftrefs's mistress's averfion to the King arofe from fome- thing Sohemus 14 No 171 ...
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Joseph Addison. mistress's averfion to the King arofe from fome- thing Sohemus had told her ; but as for any de- fign of poifoning , he utterly difowned the leaft knowledge of it . This confeffion quickly proved fatal to Sohemus , who ...
Joseph Addison. mistress's averfion to the King arofe from fome- thing Sohemus had told her ; but as for any de- fign of poifoning , he utterly difowned the leaft knowledge of it . This confeffion quickly proved fatal to Sohemus , who ...
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... thing but what tends to the promotion of what is good and honourable . If we would take true pains with ourselves to confider all things by the light of reafon and juftice , though a man were in the height of youth and amorous ...
... thing but what tends to the promotion of what is good and honourable . If we would take true pains with ourselves to confider all things by the light of reafon and juftice , though a man were in the height of youth and amorous ...
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