The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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... Mankind ill- founded : for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo felfish a Motive , and to do that out of a Defire of Fame , which we could not be prompted to by a difinterested Love to ...
... Mankind ill- founded : for certainly it denotes no great Bravery of Mind to be worked up to any noble Action by fo felfish a Motive , and to do that out of a Defire of Fame , which we could not be prompted to by a difinterested Love to ...
Page 149
... Mankind , as you may obferve from Auguftus's Reign , how the Romans loft themselves by Degrees till they fell to an Equality with the most barbarous Nations that furround- ed them . Look upon Greece under its free States , and you would ...
... Mankind , as you may obferve from Auguftus's Reign , how the Romans loft themselves by Degrees till they fell to an Equality with the most barbarous Nations that furround- ed them . Look upon Greece under its free States , and you would ...
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... Mankind . But its being fo very common , and fo univerfally re- ceived , though it takes away from it the Grace of No- velty , adds very much to the Weight of it , as it fhews that it falls in with the general Senfe of Mankind . In ...
... Mankind . But its being fo very common , and fo univerfally re- ceived , though it takes away from it the Grace of No- velty , adds very much to the Weight of it , as it fhews that it falls in with the general Senfe of Mankind . In ...
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