The Spectator, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1728 |
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... fuch Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancho- ly Tincture ...
... fuch Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancho- ly Tincture ...
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... fuch an in- dolent Happinefs , fuch an Indifference to Man- kind as that in which the Stoicks placed their Wif dom . As Love is the moft delightful Paffion , Pity is nothing elfe but Love foftned by a De- . gree of Sorrow : In fhort ...
... fuch an in- dolent Happinefs , fuch an Indifference to Man- kind as that in which the Stoicks placed their Wif dom . As Love is the moft delightful Paffion , Pity is nothing elfe but Love foftned by a De- . gree of Sorrow : In fhort ...
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... fuch an one , whom you know to be mine ancient profeffed Enemy , I no fooner receiv'd this Meffage by him , than I rightly conceived your Meaning ; ⚫ and if , as you fay , confeffing a Truth indeed may procure my Safety , I fhall with ...
... fuch an one , whom you know to be mine ancient profeffed Enemy , I no fooner receiv'd this Meffage by him , than I rightly conceived your Meaning ; ⚫ and if , as you fay , confeffing a Truth indeed may procure my Safety , I fhall with ...
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... fuch as would find out their fecret Faults , and make a true Estimate of themselves . IN the firft Place , let them confider well what IN 22 N ° 399 : The SPECTATOR . the Subject of this Paper: I mean that Hypocri- ...
... fuch as would find out their fecret Faults , and make a true Estimate of themselves . IN the firft Place , let them confider well what IN 22 N ° 399 : The SPECTATOR . the Subject of this Paper: I mean that Hypocri- ...
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... fuch we may esteem all those in which Mul- titudes of Men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as our felves . We fhould always act with great Cautioufnefs and Circumfpection , in Points where it is not impoffible that we may be ...
... fuch we may esteem all those in which Mul- titudes of Men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as our felves . We fhould always act with great Cautioufnefs and Circumfpection , in Points where it is not impoffible that we may be ...
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