The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... fome in profperity ; fome in a private , and others in a public capacity . But the great Sove- reign of the world beholds every perfection in its ob- fcurity , and not only fees what we do , but what we would do . He views our behaviour ...
... fome in profperity ; fome in a private , and others in a public capacity . But the great Sove- reign of the world beholds every perfection in its ob- fcurity , and not only fees what we do , but what we would do . He views our behaviour ...
Page 94
... fome fcorn that moft part of what we in our youth think gay and polite , is nothing else but an habit of indulging a pruriency that way . It will coft fome labour to bring people to fo lively a fenfe of this , as to recover the manly ...
... fome fcorn that moft part of what we in our youth think gay and polite , is nothing else but an habit of indulging a pruriency that way . It will coft fome labour to bring people to fo lively a fenfe of this , as to recover the manly ...
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... fome that degenerate even into puns . Of this last kind I am afraid is that in the first book , where , fpeaking of the pygmies , he calls them , 66 -The fmall Infantry " Warr'd on by cranes , " " Another blemish that appears in fome of ...
... fome that degenerate even into puns . Of this last kind I am afraid is that in the first book , where , fpeaking of the pygmies , he calls them , 66 -The fmall Infantry " Warr'd on by cranes , " " Another blemish that appears in fome of ...
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