The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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... mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more ...
... mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more ...
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... mean while , until I am provoked to such hostilities , I shall from time to time endeavour to do justice to those who have distinguished them- selves in the politer parts of learning , and to point out such beauties in their works as ...
... mean while , until I am provoked to such hostilities , I shall from time to time endeavour to do justice to those who have distinguished them- selves in the politer parts of learning , and to point out such beauties in their works as ...
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... means no more than that " manners , not dress , are the ornaments of a woman . " If this comes to the knowledge of my female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to bring myself off handsomely . In the mean while , I give you this ...
... means no more than that " manners , not dress , are the ornaments of a woman . " If this comes to the knowledge of my female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to bring myself off handsomely . In the mean while , I give you this ...
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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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