The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... feems careful rather of preferving every Perfon from being mean and deficient in his Qualifications , than of making any fingle one eminent or extraordinary . AND among those who are the most richly endowed by Nature , and accomplished ...
... feems careful rather of preferving every Perfon from being mean and deficient in his Qualifications , than of making any fingle one eminent or extraordinary . AND among those who are the most richly endowed by Nature , and accomplished ...
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... feems to carry any Weight with it , viz . That such a Poft would come too near the Nature of a Monopo- ly . Now , Sir , because I would have all Sorts of People ' made easy , and being willing to have more Strings than one to my Bow ...
... feems to carry any Weight with it , viz . That such a Poft would come too near the Nature of a Monopo- ly . Now , Sir , because I would have all Sorts of People ' made easy , and being willing to have more Strings than one to my Bow ...
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... feems to have known perfectly well , wherein his Strength lay , and has therefore chofen a Subject entirely conformable to those Talents , of which he was Mafter . As his Genius was wonderfully turned to the Sublime , his Subject is the ...
... feems to have known perfectly well , wherein his Strength lay , and has therefore chofen a Subject entirely conformable to those Talents , of which he was Mafter . As his Genius was wonderfully turned to the Sublime , his Subject is the ...
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