The Spectator, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imagina- tions set upon it . So inconsiderable is the satisfaction that fame ...
... pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imagina- tions set upon it . So inconsiderable is the satisfaction that fame ...
Page 80
... pleasure ? No : men rather seek for money as the completement of all their desires ; and regardless of what kind of wives they take , they think riches will be a minister to all kind of pleasures , and enable them to keep mistresses ...
... pleasure ? No : men rather seek for money as the completement of all their desires ; and regardless of what kind of wives they take , they think riches will be a minister to all kind of pleasures , and enable them to keep mistresses ...
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... pleasures and sentiments of the company . Cunning people , hypocrites , all who are but half virtuous , or half wise , are incapable of tasting the refined pleasure of such an equal company as could wholly exclude the regard of fortune ...
... pleasures and sentiments of the company . Cunning people , hypocrites , all who are but half virtuous , or half wise , are incapable of tasting the refined pleasure of such an equal company as could wholly exclude the regard of fortune ...
Contents
VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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