The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... mankind , rather subjects for their ad- miration than example . However , there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations , than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men . Innocent ...
... mankind , rather subjects for their ad- miration than example . However , there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations , than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men . Innocent ...
Page 24
... mankind whose portion it is to live in servitude , that those whom they de- pend upon will not allow them to be even as happy as their condition will admit of . There are , as these unhappy correspondents inform me , masters who are ...
... mankind whose portion it is to live in servitude , that those whom they de- pend upon will not allow them to be even as happy as their condition will admit of . There are , as these unhappy correspondents inform me , masters who are ...
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... mankind is inchanted , that nothing but acute pains can give him disturbance , and against those too he will tell his intimate friends he has a secret which gives him present ease . Uranius is so tho- roughly persuaded of another life ...
... mankind is inchanted , that nothing but acute pains can give him disturbance , and against those too he will tell his intimate friends he has a secret which gives him present ease . Uranius is so tho- roughly persuaded of another life ...
Page 76
... mankind as if we were all deaf ; they do not express but declare themselves . Many of these are guilty of this out- rage out of vanity , because they think all they say is well ; or that they have their own persons in such veneration ...
... mankind as if we were all deaf ; they do not express but declare themselves . Many of these are guilty of this out- rage out of vanity , because they think all they say is well ; or that they have their own persons in such veneration ...
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... mankind , I mean the ladies , to take up a whole paper upon grievances which concern the men only ; but shall humbly propose , that we change fools for an expe- riment only . A certain set of ladies complain they are frequently ...
... mankind , I mean the ladies , to take up a whole paper upon grievances which concern the men only ; but shall humbly propose , that we change fools for an expe- riment only . A certain set of ladies complain they are frequently ...
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