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" When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it. "
The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de ... - Page 296
by John Oldmixon - 1728
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The Spectator ...

1739 - 330 pages
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The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].

1744 - 348 pages
...it is oppofed by Counfel "and Advice, it is a Fire that rages the more by the Winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a Tree in which he had cut his Loves, he obfcrves that his written Flames had burnt up and withered the Tree. When lie refolves to give over...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...it is oppoled by counfcl and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree in which he had cut his loves,...obferves that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he refolves to give over his piffion, he tell us that one burnt like him for...
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 pages
...it is oppofed by counfel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree in which he had cut his Loves, he obferved that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he refolves to give over...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree, in which he had cut his loves, he observed that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree, in which he had cut his loves, he observed that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree in which he had cut his loves, he observes that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree in which he had cut his loves, he observes that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree in which he had cut his loves, he observes that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the winds blowing upon it. Upon the dying of a tree, in which he had cut his loves, 'he observed that his written flames had burnt up and withered the tree. When he resolves to give over...
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