The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... Instances of your Favour , I should have been afraid of fubmitting a Work of this Nature to your Perufal . You are so throughly acquainted with the Characters of Men , and all the Parts of human Life , that it is impossible for the ...
... Instances of your Favour , I should have been afraid of fubmitting a Work of this Nature to your Perufal . You are so throughly acquainted with the Characters of Men , and all the Parts of human Life , that it is impossible for the ...
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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 design so much to expose Vice as Idle- ness , and aimed at those Persons who pass away their Time rather in Trifle and ...
... Instances I find that the Intention of my last Tuesday's Paper has been mistaken by many of my Rea- ders . I did not design so much to expose Vice as Idle- ness , and aimed at those Persons who pass away their Time rather in Trifle and ...
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... 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 later Years . ACCORDINGLY several wife ...
... 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 later Years . ACCORDINGLY several wife ...
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... Instances out of ancient Authors to fup- port this his Opinion . The Pathetick , as that great Cri- tick obferves ... Instance of that Sublime which is not mixed and worked up with Paffion . The Author appears in a kind of compofed ...
... Instances out of ancient Authors to fup- port this his Opinion . The Pathetick , as that great Cri- tick obferves ... Instance of that Sublime which is not mixed and worked up with Paffion . The Author appears in a kind of compofed ...
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... Instances , that Divine Wisdom , which the Son of Sirach has fo nobly afcribed to the Supreme Being in his Formation of the World , when he tells us , that He created her , and saw her , and num- bered her , and poured her out upon all ...
... Instances , that Divine Wisdom , which the Son of Sirach has fo nobly afcribed to the Supreme Being in his Formation of the World , when he tells us , that He created her , and saw her , and num- bered her , and poured her out upon all ...
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