The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... faid or done by fuch a Philofopher , Hero , General , or Poet . I no fooner heard this Critick talk of my Works , but I minuted what he had faid ; and from that Inftant refolved to enlarge the Plan of my Speculations , by giving notice ...
... faid or done by fuch a Philofopher , Hero , General , or Poet . I no fooner heard this Critick talk of my Works , but I minuted what he had faid ; and from that Inftant refolved to enlarge the Plan of my Speculations , by giving notice ...
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... faid of him , when it is forgotten by those who faid or heard it . For this Reafon I could never bear one of thofe officious Friends , that would be telling every malicious Report , every idle Cenfure that paffed upon me . The Tongue of ...
... faid of him , when it is forgotten by those who faid or heard it . For this Reafon I could never bear one of thofe officious Friends , that would be telling every malicious Report , every idle Cenfure that paffed upon me . The Tongue of ...
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... faid to have given to his Difciples , and which that Philofopher muft have drawn from the Obfervation I have enlarged upon . Optimum vitæ genus eligito , nam confuetudo faciet jucun diffimum , Pitch upon that Courfe of Life , which is ...
... faid to have given to his Difciples , and which that Philofopher muft have drawn from the Obfervation I have enlarged upon . Optimum vitæ genus eligito , nam confuetudo faciet jucun diffimum , Pitch upon that Courfe of Life , which is ...
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