The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... occasion for it . I have already communicated to the public some pieces of divine poetry , and , as they have met with a very favorable reception , I shall from time to time publish any work of the same nature which has not yet appeared ...
... occasion for it . I have already communicated to the public some pieces of divine poetry , and , as they have met with a very favorable reception , I shall from time to time publish any work of the same nature which has not yet appeared ...
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... occasion requires , can tell you the slips of their great grandmothers , and traduce the memory of honest coachmen that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall fur ...
... occasion requires , can tell you the slips of their great grandmothers , and traduce the memory of honest coachmen that have been in their graves above these hundred years . By these and the like helps , I question not but I shall fur ...
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... occasion to reflect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill education who has not been taught to deny any thing . This false ...
... occasion to reflect upon the ill effects of a vicious modesty , and to remember the saying of Brutus , as it is quoted by Plutarch , that the person has had but an ill education who has not been taught to deny any thing . This false ...
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... occasions . The same show of religion appears in all the foreign reformed churches ; and enters so much into their ordinary conversation , that an Englishman is apt to term them hypocritical and precise . This little appearance of a ...
... occasions . The same show of religion appears in all the foreign reformed churches ; and enters so much into their ordinary conversation , that an Englishman is apt to term them hypocritical and precise . This little appearance of a ...
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... occasion all my life to reflect upon the fatal consequences of following the suggestions of Vanity . " MR . SPECTATOR , " I write to you , to desire that t you would again touch upon a certain enormity , which is chiefly in use among ...
... occasion all my life to reflect upon the fatal consequences of following the suggestions of Vanity . " MR . SPECTATOR , " I write to you , to desire that t you would again touch upon a certain enormity , which is chiefly in use among ...
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