The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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Page 129
... greatest Statesmen of the Age in which he lived , being asked by a Friend , How he was able to dispatch that Multitude of Affairs in which he was engaged ? reply'd , That his whole Art confifted in doing one thing at once . If , fays he ...
... greatest Statesmen of the Age in which he lived , being asked by a Friend , How he was able to dispatch that Multitude of Affairs in which he was engaged ? reply'd , That his whole Art confifted in doing one thing at once . If , fays he ...
Page 130
... greatest Capacities are not fo , is either because they defpife Wealth in Comparison of fomething . elfe ; or at least are not content to be getting an Estate , unless they may do it their own way , and at the fame time enjoy all the ...
... greatest Capacities are not fo , is either because they defpife Wealth in Comparison of fomething . elfe ; or at least are not content to be getting an Estate , unless they may do it their own way , and at the fame time enjoy all the ...
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... greatest Ancients have been guilty of it , and that Ariftotle himself has given it a place in his Rheto- rick among the Beauties of that Art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is I think at prefent univerfally ex- ploded by ...
... greatest Ancients have been guilty of it , and that Ariftotle himself has given it a place in his Rheto- rick among the Beauties of that Art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is I think at prefent univerfally ex- ploded by ...
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