The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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Page 137
... fortune below the capacity of act- ing according to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentleman was generous ? My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain satiety ...
... fortune below the capacity of act- ing according to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentleman was generous ? My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain satiety ...
Page 138
... fortune , without commerce , can possibly support . For the citizen , above all other men , has opportunities of arriving at that highest fruit of wealth , to be liberal without the least expence of a man's own fortune . ' It is not to ...
... fortune , without commerce , can possibly support . For the citizen , above all other men , has opportunities of arriving at that highest fruit of wealth , to be liberal without the least expence of a man's own fortune . ' It is not to ...
Page 210
... fortune , by appearing to be in a better condition than one is , so far as such ap- pearance shall not make us really of worse . It is a justice due to the character of one who suffers hard reflections from any particular person upon ...
... fortune , by appearing to be in a better condition than one is , so far as such ap- pearance shall not make us really of worse . It is a justice due to the character of one who suffers hard reflections from any particular person upon ...
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