The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index : the Eight Volumes Comprised in OneSharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly, Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, Craddock and Joy, Paternoster Row and J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, 1811 - English essays - 751 pages |
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... appear tion at a young thing in a box before us , he said , ' I am quite of another opinion . She has , I will allow , a very pleasing aspect , but , methinks , that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent ...
... appear tion at a young thing in a box before us , he said , ' I am quite of another opinion . She has , I will allow , a very pleasing aspect , but , methinks , that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent ...
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... appear'd . I KNOW no evil under the sun so great as the abuse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person ...
... appear'd . I KNOW no evil under the sun so great as the abuse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person ...
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... appear- ance in King William's days , and that the stage would be supplied with lions at the public ex- pense , during the whole session . Many likewise were the conjectures of the treatment which this lion was to meet with from the ...
... appear- ance in King William's days , and that the stage would be supplied with lions at the public ex- pense , during the whole session . Many likewise were the conjectures of the treatment which this lion was to meet with from the ...
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... appear among us none but a few ordi- nary people , who come to church only to say their prayers , so that I have no work worth speaking of but on Sundays . I have placed my son at the Piazzas , to acquaint the ladies , that the bell ...
... appear among us none but a few ordi- nary people , who come to church only to say their prayers , so that I have no work worth speaking of but on Sundays . I have placed my son at the Piazzas , to acquaint the ladies , that the bell ...
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... appears in a spe- cies , not as it is circumstanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole ... appear defective or uncome- In the next place , I must apply myself to my ly , it is , methinks , an honest and ...
... appears in a spe- cies , not as it is circumstanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole ... appear defective or uncome- In the next place , I must apply myself to my ly , it is , methinks , an honest and ...
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