The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... mind to ap- pear fingular in my way of writing : but the general reception I have found , convinces me that the world is not fo corrupt as we are apt to imagine ; and that if thofe men of parts who have been employed in vitiating the ...
... mind to ap- pear fingular in my way of writing : but the general reception I have found , convinces me that the world is not fo corrupt as we are apt to imagine ; and that if thofe men of parts who have been employed in vitiating the ...
Page 171
... mind in affifting the diftreffed . The decency then that is to be obferved in liberality . feems to confift in its being performed with fuch chear- fulness , as may exprefs the Godlike pleasure to be met with , in obliging one's fellow ...
... mind in affifting the diftreffed . The decency then that is to be obferved in liberality . feems to confift in its being performed with fuch chear- fulness , as may exprefs the Godlike pleasure to be met with , in obliging one's fellow ...
Page 173
... mind which had inhabited it . Ne non procumbat honeftè , Extrema hæc etiam cura cadentis erat . Ovid . Faft . iii . 833 . " ' Twas her last thought , how decently to fall . " • Mr. SPECTATOR , I Am a young woman without a fortune ; but ...
... mind which had inhabited it . Ne non procumbat honeftè , Extrema hæc etiam cura cadentis erat . Ovid . Faft . iii . 833 . " ' Twas her last thought , how decently to fall . " • Mr. SPECTATOR , I Am a young woman without a fortune ; but ...
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