The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... instances I find that the intention of my last Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my rea- ders . I did not defign so much to expose vice as idle- nefs , ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away 10 No 323 THE SPECTATOR .
... instances I find that the intention of my last Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my rea- ders . I did not defign so much to expose vice as idle- nefs , ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away 10 No 323 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 44
... instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards ; and that a barber was not then allow'd to make those depredations on the faces of the learned , which have been permitted him of late years . Accordingly feveral wife nations ...
... instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards ; and that a barber was not then allow'd to make those depredations on the faces of the learned , which have been permitted him of late years . Accordingly feveral wife nations ...
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... instances out of ancient authors to sup- port this his opinion . The pathetic , as that great cri- tic observes ... instance of that fublime which is not mixed and worked up with pafion . The author appears in a kind of composed ...
... instances out of ancient authors to sup- port this his opinion . The pathetic , as that great cri- tic observes ... instance of that fublime which is not mixed and worked up with pafion . The author appears in a kind of composed ...
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... instance of a noble mind , to bear great qualities without difcovering in a man's behaviour any consciousness that he is fuperior to the rest of the world . Or , to say it otherwise , it is the duty of a great person so to demean ...
... instance of a noble mind , to bear great qualities without difcovering in a man's behaviour any consciousness that he is fuperior to the rest of the world . Or , to say it otherwise , it is the duty of a great person so to demean ...
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... instance that the ' fexes are equally inclined to defamation , with equal ' malice , with equal impotence . Jack Triplett came into my lady Airy's about eight of the clock . You know the manner we fit at a vifit , and I need not ...
... instance that the ' fexes are equally inclined to defamation , with equal ' malice , with equal impotence . Jack Triplett came into my lady Airy's about eight of the clock . You know the manner we fit at a vifit , and I need not ...
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