The Spectator, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton, 1853 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... passes away as agreeably in the amusements of a country life , as it ever did in the gallantries of the town ; and that you now take as much pleasure in the planting of young trees , as you did formerly in the cutting down of your old ...
... passes away as agreeably in the amusements of a country life , as it ever did in the gallantries of the town ; and that you now take as much pleasure in the planting of young trees , as you did formerly in the cutting down of your old ...
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... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscious integrity shall undermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflection of the use of ...
... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscious integrity shall undermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflection of the use of ...
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... pass away the whiling mo- ments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with the eyes of ...
... pass away the whiling mo- ments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with the eyes of ...
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... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen my- thology is not only excusable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients to low subjects ...
... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen my- thology is not only excusable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients to low subjects ...
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... pass between London and Westminster . As I have great confi- dence in the capacity , resolution , and integrity of the person deputed by me to give an account of enor- mities , I doubt not but I shall soon have before me all proper ...
... pass between London and Westminster . As I have great confi- dence in the capacity , resolution , and integrity of the person deputed by me to give an account of enor- mities , I doubt not but I shall soon have before me all proper ...
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