The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... readers as my pa- tients , and to prescribe such a kind of temperance as is accommodated to all persons , and such as is par- ticularly suitable to our climate and way of living , I would copy the following rules of a very eminent ...
... readers as my pa- tients , and to prescribe such a kind of temperance as is accommodated to all persons , and such as is par- ticularly suitable to our climate and way of living , I would copy the following rules of a very eminent ...
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... reader , I shall not enlarge upon it . L. No 202. MONDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1711 . Sape decem vitiis instructior , odit et horret . HOR . 1 Ep . xviii . 25 . Though ten times worse themselves , you'll frequent view Those who with keenest ...
... reader , I shall not enlarge upon it . L. No 202. MONDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1711 . Sape decem vitiis instructior , odit et horret . HOR . 1 Ep . xviii . 25 . Though ten times worse themselves , you'll frequent view Those who with keenest ...
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... reader's entertainment , he will , I hope , forgive the inserting such particulars as to him may perhaps seem frivolous , but are to the persons who wrote them of the highest consequence . I shall not trouble you with the prefaces ...
... reader's entertainment , he will , I hope , forgive the inserting such particulars as to him may perhaps seem frivolous , but are to the persons who wrote them of the highest consequence . I shall not trouble you with the prefaces ...
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... reader cannot be more rationally entertained , than by comparing the vir- tues and vices of his own times with those which prevailed in the times of his forefathers ; and draw- ing a parallel in his mind between his own private ...
... reader cannot be more rationally entertained , than by comparing the vir- tues and vices of his own times with those which prevailed in the times of his forefathers ; and draw- ing a parallel in his mind between his own private ...
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... readers in the present paper , are a remarkable in- stance of what I formerly advanced . The subject of this satire is woman . He describes the sex in their several characters , which he derives to them No 209 . from a fanciful ...
... readers in the present paper , are a remarkable in- stance of what I formerly advanced . The subject of this satire is woman . He describes the sex in their several characters , which he derives to them No 209 . from a fanciful ...
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