The Spectator, Volume 6Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 19
... fecret faults . " If the open profeffors of impiety deferve the utmoft application and endeavours of moral writers to recover them from vice and folly , how much more may those lay a claim to their care and compaffion , who are walk ...
... fecret faults . " If the open profeffors of impiety deferve the utmoft application and endeavours of moral writers to recover them from vice and folly , how much more may those lay a claim to their care and compaffion , who are walk ...
Page 141
... fecret fprings they have had fuch fuaden . afcents and falls in the fame day ? Could he be better conducted in his way to wealth , which is the great ar- ticle of life , than in a treatife dated from Change- Alley by an able proficient ...
... fecret fprings they have had fuch fuaden . afcents and falls in the fame day ? Could he be better conducted in his way to wealth , which is the great ar- ticle of life , than in a treatife dated from Change- Alley by an able proficient ...
Page 261
... fecret , * I have been very well pleafed to hear people whif pering it to one another at fecond hand , and spreading it about as their own ; for you must know , Sir , the great incentive to whifpering is the ambition which every one has ...
... fecret , * I have been very well pleafed to hear people whif pering it to one another at fecond hand , and spreading it about as their own ; for you must know , Sir , the great incentive to whifpering is the ambition which every one has ...
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