The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... Simonides ' Satire on Women 210 Immortality of the Soul 211 Transmigration of Souls - Letters ADDISON STEELE ADDISON HUGHES on Simonides ' Satire on Women ADDISON L212 Letter from a Hen - peckt Husband determined to be free ... 213 On ...
... Simonides ' Satire on Women 210 Immortality of the Soul 211 Transmigration of Souls - Letters ADDISON STEELE ADDISON HUGHES on Simonides ' Satire on Women ADDISON L212 Letter from a Hen - peckt Husband determined to be free ... 213 On ...
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... SIMONIDES . Of earthly goods , the best is a good wife ; A bad , the bitterest curse of human life . THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who shew human nature in a variety of views , and describe the several ages of ...
... SIMONIDES . Of earthly goods , the best is a good wife ; A bad , the bitterest curse of human life . THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who shew human nature in a variety of views , and describe the several ages of ...
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... Simonides , a poet famous in his generation , is , I think , author of the oldest satire that is now extant ; and , as some say , of the first that was ever written . This poet flourished about four hundred years after the siege of Troy ...
... Simonides , a poet famous in his generation , is , I think , author of the oldest satire that is now extant ; and , as some say , of the first that was ever written . This poet flourished about four hundred years after the siege of Troy ...
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... Simonides describes brutes entering into the composition of wo- men , others have represented human souls as enter- ing into brutes . This is commonly termed the doc- trine of transmigration , which supposes that human souls , upon ...
... Simonides describes brutes entering into the composition of wo- men , others have represented human souls as enter- ing into brutes . This is commonly termed the doc- trine of transmigration , which supposes that human souls , upon ...
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... Simonides , in relation to the several natures and distinctions of our own sex . I could not but admire how justly the cha- racters of women in this age fall in with the times of Simonides , there being no one of those sorts I have not ...
... Simonides , in relation to the several natures and distinctions of our own sex . I could not but admire how justly the cha- racters of women in this age fall in with the times of Simonides , there being no one of those sorts I have not ...
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