The Spectator, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... mankind ill - founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to ...
... mankind ill - founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to ...
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... mankind , as you may observe from Augustus's reign , how the Romans lost themselves by degrees until they fell to an equality with the most barbarous nations that surrounded them . Look upon Greece under its free states , and you would ...
... mankind , as you may observe from Augustus's reign , how the Romans lost themselves by degrees until they fell to an equality with the most barbarous nations that surrounded them . Look upon Greece under its free states , and you would ...
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... mankind . But its being so very common , and so universally received , though it takes away from it the grace of novelty , adds very much to the weight of it , as it shews that it falls in with the general sense of mankind . In short ...
... mankind . But its being so very common , and so universally received , though it takes away from it the grace of novelty , adds very much to the weight of it , as it shews that it falls in with the general sense of mankind . In short ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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