The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 126
... happy as to have come in and heard you , for I have not words to fay what fhe is : But if an agreeable height , a modest air , a virgin fhame , and impatience ⚫ of being beheld amidst a blaze of ten thousand charms The whole room flew ...
... happy as to have come in and heard you , for I have not words to fay what fhe is : But if an agreeable height , a modest air , a virgin fhame , and impatience ⚫ of being beheld amidst a blaze of ten thousand charms The whole room flew ...
Page 129
... happy or un- happy , so neither can it be pronounced vicious or virtu- ous , before the conclufion of it . It was upon this confideration , that Epaminondas ,, being asked whether Chabrias , Iphicrates , or he himself , deferved most to ...
... happy or un- happy , so neither can it be pronounced vicious or virtu- ous , before the conclufion of it . It was upon this confideration , that Epaminondas ,, being asked whether Chabrias , Iphicrates , or he himself , deferved most to ...
Page 271
... happy temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and ficknefs , fhame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay death itself , confidering the fhortneís of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deferve the name of ...
... happy temper from a virtuous mind . Pain and ficknefs , fhame and reproach , poverty and old age , nay death itself , confidering the fhortneís of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deferve the name of ...
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