The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J. J. Woodward, 1832 - 895 pages |
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Page 27
... mind engages multitudes of people , not only in impertinent terrors , but in su- pernumerary duties of life ; and arises from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the soul of man . The horror , with which we entertain the ...
... mind engages multitudes of people , not only in impertinent terrors , but in su- pernumerary duties of life ; and arises from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the soul of man . The horror , with which we entertain the ...
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... mind , from generous and humane resentments . It is like that grief which we have for the decease of our friends . It is no diminution , but a recommendation of human nature , that in such incidents , pas- sion gets the better of reason ...
... mind , from generous and humane resentments . It is like that grief which we have for the decease of our friends . It is no diminution , but a recommendation of human nature , that in such incidents , pas- sion gets the better of reason ...
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... mind of an Italian | fields , as he thought the nature of the soil epitaph , written on the monument of a va- required . At the end of the year , when letudinarian : Stavo ben , ma per star meg- he expected to see a more than ordinary ...
... mind of an Italian | fields , as he thought the nature of the soil epitaph , written on the monument of a va- required . At the end of the year , when letudinarian : Stavo ben , ma per star meg- he expected to see a more than ordinary ...
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... mind to go to sleep . Since then it is certain that our own hearts deceive us in the love of the world , and that we cannot command ourselves enough to resign it , though we every day wish ourselves disengaged from its allure- ments ...
... mind to go to sleep . Since then it is certain that our own hearts deceive us in the love of the world , and that we cannot command ourselves enough to resign it , though we every day wish ourselves disengaged from its allure- ments ...
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... mind naturally sinks into a kind of lethargy , and falls asleep , that is not agitated by some favourite pleasures and pursuits , Leo- nora has turned all the passions of her sex A LATE conversation which I fell into , into a love of ...
... mind naturally sinks into a kind of lethargy , and falls asleep , that is not agitated by some favourite pleasures and pursuits , Leo- nora has turned all the passions of her sex A LATE conversation which I fell into , into a love of ...
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