The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... common fenfe , with- out the help of an inftructor ; but that which we call common fenfe fuffers under that word ; for it fometimes implies no more than that faculty which is common to all men , but fometimes fignifies right reafon ...
... common fenfe , with- out the help of an inftructor ; but that which we call common fenfe fuffers under that word ; for it fometimes implies no more than that faculty which is common to all men , but fometimes fignifies right reafon ...
Page 70
... common councilman that was in court in 1729 , when he had been a common councilman for fome years , and lived to fee fix aldermen fucceffively elected for Aldgate Ward after he fined , viz . Sir William Smith , his immediate fucceffor ...
... common councilman that was in court in 1729 , when he had been a common councilman for fome years , and lived to fee fix aldermen fucceffively elected for Aldgate Ward after he fined , viz . Sir William Smith , his immediate fucceffor ...
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... common forms and ordinary phrafes of fpeech . The judgment of a poet very much discovers itself in fhunning the common roads of expreffion , without falling into fuch ways of fpeech as may feem ftiff and unnatural ; he must not fwell ...
... common forms and ordinary phrafes of fpeech . The judgment of a poet very much discovers itself in fhunning the common roads of expreffion , without falling into fuch ways of fpeech as may feem ftiff and unnatural ; he must not fwell ...
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