The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Page 59
... mankind , ' when they pray for all men ; for race signifies lineage or descent ; and if the race of mankind may be used for the present generation , ( though , I think , not very fitly ) the whole race takes in all from the beginning to ...
... mankind , ' when they pray for all men ; for race signifies lineage or descent ; and if the race of mankind may be used for the present generation , ( though , I think , not very fitly ) the whole race takes in all from the beginning to ...
Page 77
... mankind . His sitting upon the brink of this passage , and taking a survey of the whole face of nature that appeared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the simile illustrating this circumstance , fills the mind of the ...
... mankind . His sitting upon the brink of this passage , and taking a survey of the whole face of nature that appeared to him new and fresh in all its beauties , with the simile illustrating this circumstance , fills the mind of the ...
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... mankind , in the last view which he gives us of him , under the lowest state of mortifica- tion and disappointment . We see him chewing ashes , " grovelling in the dust , and loaden with supernu- merary pains and torments . On the ...
... mankind , in the last view which he gives us of him , under the lowest state of mortifica- tion and disappointment . We see him chewing ashes , " grovelling in the dust , and loaden with supernu- merary pains and torments . On the ...
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