The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... nature , or something which must bear its appearance , and supply its place . For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine ...
... nature , or something which must bear its appearance , and supply its place . For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine ...
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... nature , however , in the constitution , which Mr. Dryden somewhere calls a " milki- ness of blood , " is an admirable groundwork for the other . In order therefore to try our good nature , whether it arises from the body or the mind ...
... nature , however , in the constitution , which Mr. Dryden somewhere calls a " milki- ness of blood , " is an admirable groundwork for the other . In order therefore to try our good nature , whether it arises from the body or the mind ...
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... nature of which bears some dis- tant resemblance to that high one he is at present possessed of . Thus one may view him exercising in miniature those talents of nature , which being drawn out by education to their full length , enable ...
... nature of which bears some dis- tant resemblance to that high one he is at present possessed of . Thus one may view him exercising in miniature those talents of nature , which being drawn out by education to their full length , enable ...
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