The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Virtues which want an Opportunity of exerting and fhewing themfelves in Actions . Every Virtue re- quires Time and Place , a proper Object and a fit Con- juncture of Circumftances , for the due Exercife of it . A State of Poverty ...
... Virtues which want an Opportunity of exerting and fhewing themfelves in Actions . Every Virtue re- quires Time and Place , a proper Object and a fit Con- juncture of Circumftances , for the due Exercife of it . A State of Poverty ...
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... Virtue ? Virtue , which , as the Satirist long fince obferved , is real Honour ; whereas the other Diltinctions among Mankind are meerly titular . Judg- ing by that Rule in my Opinion , and in that of many of your virtuous Female ...
... Virtue ? Virtue , which , as the Satirist long fince obferved , is real Honour ; whereas the other Diltinctions among Mankind are meerly titular . Judg- ing by that Rule in my Opinion , and in that of many of your virtuous Female ...
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... Virtue . But when that Virtue began to comply in " my Favour , my Reafon made an Effort over my Love , " and let me fee the Baseness of my Behaviour in attempt- " ing a Woman of Honour . I own to you , it was not " without the most ...
... Virtue . But when that Virtue began to comply in " my Favour , my Reafon made an Effort over my Love , " and let me fee the Baseness of my Behaviour in attempt- " ing a Woman of Honour . I own to you , it was not " without the most ...
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