The Spectator, Volume 5W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... character of the perfon ' fpeaking . This exercife would foon ftrengthen his judgment in what is blameable or praife - worthy , and give him an early feafoning of morality . - · Next to thofe examples which may be met with in ' books ...
... character of the perfon ' fpeaking . This exercife would foon ftrengthen his judgment in what is blameable or praife - worthy , and give him an early feafoning of morality . - · Next to thofe examples which may be met with in ' books ...
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... character , can do no injury to its inter- efts but by the imitation of it , in which the good citizen will rejoice to be rivalled . I know not how to form to myself a greater idea of human life , than in what is the practice of fome ...
... character , can do no injury to its inter- efts but by the imitation of it , in which the good citizen will rejoice to be rivalled . I know not how to form to myself a greater idea of human life , than in what is the practice of fome ...
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... character . Mrs. Porter obliged me fo very much in the exquifite fense fhe feemed to have of the honourable fentiments and ⚫ noble paffions in the character of Hermione , that I fhall appear in her behalf at a comedy , tho ' I have no ...
... character . Mrs. Porter obliged me fo very much in the exquifite fense fhe feemed to have of the honourable fentiments and ⚫ noble paffions in the character of Hermione , that I fhall appear in her behalf at a comedy , tho ' I have no ...
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