The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... carried all the parts of polite learning to the greatest height . His chief design in that insti- tution was to divert the men of genius from meddling with politics , a province in which he did not care to have any one else interfere ...
... carried all the parts of polite learning to the greatest height . His chief design in that insti- tution was to divert the men of genius from meddling with politics , a province in which he did not care to have any one else interfere ...
Page 195
... carry this thought yet further , I shall sub- mit it to your consideration , whether , instead of a theme or copy of ... carried to a greater degree of perfection , and how it exceeded or fell short of another . He might at the same time ...
... carry this thought yet further , I shall sub- mit it to your consideration , whether , instead of a theme or copy of ... carried to a greater degree of perfection , and how it exceeded or fell short of another . He might at the same time ...
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... carry on a good jest . He is very old for a man of so much good humour ; but to this day he is seldom merry but he has ... carried farther may be better performed by other animals than men . It is not to rid much ground , or do much ...
... carry on a good jest . He is very old for a man of so much good humour ; but to this day he is seldom merry but he has ... carried farther may be better performed by other animals than men . It is not to rid much ground , or do much ...
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