The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... mean and narrow Minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a Man's Senfe of his own Incapacities makes him despair of coming at Fame , or that he has not enough range of Thought to look out for any Good which does not more ...
... mean and narrow Minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a Man's Senfe of his own Incapacities makes him despair of coming at Fame , or that he has not enough range of Thought to look out for any Good which does not more ...
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... mean while , ' till I am provoked to fuch Hofti- lities , I fhall from time to time endeavour to do Justice to those who have diftinguished themselves in the politer Parts of Learning , and to point out fuch Beauties in their Works as ...
... mean while , ' till I am provoked to fuch Hofti- lities , I fhall from time to time endeavour to do Justice to those who have diftinguished themselves in the politer Parts of Learning , and to point out fuch Beauties in their Works as ...
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... mean the Authors having chofen , for their Heroes , Perfons who were so nearly re lated to the People for whom they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Eneas the remote Founder of Rome . By this means their Countrymen ( whom they ...
... mean the Authors having chofen , for their Heroes , Perfons who were so nearly re lated to the People for whom they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Eneas the remote Founder of Rome . By this means their Countrymen ( whom they ...
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