The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Page 65
... passion , which it is mean to indulge , and which it would be glorious to Overcome . • These sort of fellows are very numerous , and some have been conspicuously such , without shame ; nay , they have carried on the jest in the very ...
... passion , which it is mean to indulge , and which it would be glorious to Overcome . • These sort of fellows are very numerous , and some have been conspicuously such , without shame ; nay , they have carried on the jest in the very ...
Page 83
... passion , or love to that with which they are so much delighted . Ingra- titude is a vice inseparable from a lustful man ; and the possession of a woman by him , who has no thought but allaying a passion painful to himself , is neces ...
... passion , or love to that with which they are so much delighted . Ingra- titude is a vice inseparable from a lustful man ; and the possession of a woman by him , who has no thought but allaying a passion painful to himself , is neces ...
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... passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which , though it may be faulty in the excess of it , ought by no means to be discouraged . Perhaps some moralists are too severe in beating down this principle , which seems to be a spring ...
... passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which , though it may be faulty in the excess of it , ought by no means to be discouraged . Perhaps some moralists are too severe in beating down this principle , which seems to be a spring ...
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