The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 2George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment , on the contrary , lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully , one from another , ideas wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by simili- tude ...
... agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment , on the contrary , lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully , one from another , ideas wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by simili- tude ...
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... agreeable person is the main purpose of her parents ; to that is all their cost , to that all their care directed ; and from this general folly of parents we owe our present numerous race of coquettes . These reflec- tions puzzle me ...
... agreeable person is the main purpose of her parents ; to that is all their cost , to that all their care directed ; and from this general folly of parents we owe our present numerous race of coquettes . These reflec- tions puzzle me ...
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... agreeable , and in others as odious and detestable . Martial has given us a very pretty pic- ture of one of this species , in the following epigram : ' Difficilis , facilis , jucundus , acerbus es idem , Nec tecum possum vivere , nec ...
... agreeable , and in others as odious and detestable . Martial has given us a very pretty pic- ture of one of this species , in the following epigram : ' Difficilis , facilis , jucundus , acerbus es idem , Nec tecum possum vivere , nec ...
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... agreeable part of our character . C. No. 69. SATURDAY , MAY 19 , 1711 . Hic segetes , illic veniunt feliciùs uvæ : Arborei fœtus alibi , atque injussa virescunt Gramina . Nonne vides , croceos ut Tmolus odores , India mittit ebur ...
... agreeable part of our character . C. No. 69. SATURDAY , MAY 19 , 1711 . Hic segetes , illic veniunt feliciùs uvæ : Arborei fœtus alibi , atque injussa virescunt Gramina . Nonne vides , croceos ut Tmolus odores , India mittit ebur ...
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... be worth considering what sort of figure a man , who formed himself upon those principles among us which are agreeable to the dictates of honour and religion , would make in the familiar and ordinary occurrences 75 . 71 SPECTATOR .
... be worth considering what sort of figure a man , who formed himself upon those principles among us which are agreeable to the dictates of honour and religion , would make in the familiar and ordinary occurrences 75 . 71 SPECTATOR .
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