The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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Page 94
... THESE Descriptions raise a pleafing kind of Horror in the Mind of the Reader , and amufe his Imagination with the Strangenefs and Novelty of the Perfons who are reprefented in them . They bring up into our Me- mory the Stories we have ...
... THESE Descriptions raise a pleafing kind of Horror in the Mind of the Reader , and amufe his Imagination with the Strangenefs and Novelty of the Perfons who are reprefented in them . They bring up into our Me- mory the Stories we have ...
Page 246
... these I fhall diftinguish by the Name of Faith , the fecond by that of Morality . IF we look into the more serious Part of Mankind , we find many who lay fo great a Stress upon Faith , that they neglect Morality ; and many who build fo ...
... these I fhall diftinguish by the Name of Faith , the fecond by that of Morality . IF we look into the more serious Part of Mankind , we find many who lay fo great a Stress upon Faith , that they neglect Morality ; and many who build fo ...
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... these foregoing Inftances in that beautiful De- fcription wherein he reprefents the Arch - Angel and the Evil Spirit as addreffing themselves for the Combat , but parted by the Balance which appeared in the Heavens and weighed the ...
... these foregoing Inftances in that beautiful De- fcription wherein he reprefents the Arch - Angel and the Evil Spirit as addreffing themselves for the Combat , but parted by the Balance which appeared in the Heavens and weighed the ...
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