The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... mind to ap pear fingular in my Way of Writing : But the general Reception I have found , convinces me that the World is not fo corrupt as we are apt to imagine ; and that if those Men of Parts who have been employed in vitiating the Age ...
... mind to ap pear fingular in my Way of Writing : But the general Reception I have found , convinces me that the World is not fo corrupt as we are apt to imagine ; and that if those Men of Parts who have been employed in vitiating the Age ...
Page 166
... Mind in affifting the Diftreffed . THE Decency then that is to be observed in Libe- rality feems to consist in its being performed with fuch Chearfulness , as may exprefs the Godlike Pleasure is to be met with in obliging one's Fellow ...
... Mind in affifting the Diftreffed . THE Decency then that is to be observed in Libe- rality feems to consist in its being performed with fuch Chearfulness , as may exprefs the Godlike Pleasure is to be met with in obliging one's Fellow ...
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Mind looks down on fuch as are exalted with Success , with a certain Shame for the Imbecillity of human Na- ture , that can fo far forget how liable it is to Calamity , as to grow giddy with only the Sufpence of Sorrow , which is the ...
Mind looks down on fuch as are exalted with Success , with a certain Shame for the Imbecillity of human Na- ture , that can fo far forget how liable it is to Calamity , as to grow giddy with only the Sufpence of Sorrow , which is the ...
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