The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J. J. Woodward, 1832 - 895 pages |
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... present age will be talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . that ( to say the least of it ) has been always equal to those great honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much ...
... present age will be talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . that ( to say the least of it ) has been always equal to those great honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much ...
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... present time ; and lamented to myself , that his predecessors , and has drawn together though in those days they neglected their greater audiences than have been known in morality , they kept up their good sense ; the memory of man ...
... present time ; and lamented to myself , that his predecessors , and has drawn together though in those days they neglected their greater audiences than have been known in morality , they kept up their good sense ; the memory of man ...
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... present the two leading diversions of the town , and Mr. Powell professing in his advertisements to set up Whittington and his Cat against Rinaldo and Armida , my curiosity led me the beginning of last week to view both these ...
... present the two leading diversions of the town , and Mr. Powell professing in his advertisements to set up Whittington and his Cat against Rinaldo and Armida , my curiosity led me the beginning of last week to view both these ...
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... present lurking - holes that I cannot forbear complying with it . into broad day - light . If I attack the vi- cious , I shall only set upon them in a body ; To the Spectator . and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive ...
... present lurking - holes that I cannot forbear complying with it . into broad day - light . If I attack the vi- cious , I shall only set upon them in a body ; To the Spectator . and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive ...
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... present a virtuous or innocent person in distress , they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his trou- bles , or made him triumph over his ene- mies . This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in ...
... present a virtuous or innocent person in distress , they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his trou- bles , or made him triumph over his ene- mies . This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in ...
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