The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 34
... considering that they are in a state of ignorance , or , as we usually say , do not know their right hand from their left . There is another tribe of persons who are retain- ers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon ...
... considering that they are in a state of ignorance , or , as we usually say , do not know their right hand from their left . There is another tribe of persons who are retain- ers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon ...
Page 39
... consider of it . This great poet and philosopher , the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity , found that he waded but the more out of his depth ; and that he lost himself in the thought , instead of finding an end of it . If we ...
... consider of it . This great poet and philosopher , the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity , found that he waded but the more out of his depth ; and that he lost himself in the thought , instead of finding an end of it . If we ...
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... consider the Emperor was a heathen , that doubt concerning the future state of his soul will seem so far from being the effect of want of thought , that it was scarce reasonable he should think otherwise ; not to mention that here is a ...
... consider the Emperor was a heathen , that doubt concerning the future state of his soul will seem so far from being the effect of want of thought , that it was scarce reasonable he should think otherwise ; not to mention that here is a ...
Page 51
... consider us in this respect as the weakest sex , and have nothing to defend our- selves : and I think it is as gentleman - like to chal- lenge a woman to fight , as to talk obscenely in her company , especially when she has not power to ...
... consider us in this respect as the weakest sex , and have nothing to defend our- selves : and I think it is as gentleman - like to chal- lenge a woman to fight , as to talk obscenely in her company , especially when she has not power to ...
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... consider himself , if he reflects on the several amusements of hope which have some- times passed in his mind , as a near relation to the Persian glass - man . Alnaschar , says the fable , was a very idle fellow , that never would set ...
... consider himself , if he reflects on the several amusements of hope which have some- times passed in his mind , as a near relation to the Persian glass - man . Alnaschar , says the fable , was a very idle fellow , that never would set ...
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