The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J. J. Woodward, 1832 - 895 pages |
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... figure in the British senate , as well as in that ele- gance and politeness which appear in your more retired conversation . I should be un- pardonable if , after what I have said , I should longer detain you with an address of this ...
... figure in the British senate , as well as in that ele- gance and politeness which appear in your more retired conversation . I should be un- pardonable if , after what I have said , I should longer detain you with an address of this ...
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... figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his species . It is therefore no wonder we see such multitudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , notwithstanding the study and practice ...
... figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his species . It is therefore no wonder we see such multitudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beauties of your character , notwithstanding the study and practice ...
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Common . He is acquainted with com- merce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Common . He is acquainted with com- merce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got ...
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... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a pro- per assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a pro- per assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
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... figure , as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my me- mory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Æolus . The great heaps of gold on ...
... figure , as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my me- mory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Æolus . The great heaps of gold on ...
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