The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 15
... endeavor to make yourself valuable , both as a friend and lover , to one whom you have cho- sen to be the companion of your life . The first is the spring of a thousand fopperies , silly artifices , false- hoods , and perhaps ...
... endeavor to make yourself valuable , both as a friend and lover , to one whom you have cho- sen to be the companion of your life . The first is the spring of a thousand fopperies , silly artifices , false- hoods , and perhaps ...
Page 26
... endeavor to enliven this plain and honest letter with Ovid's relation about Cybele's image . The ship wherein it was aboard was stranded at the mouth of the Tyber , and the men were unable to move it , till Claudia , a virgin , but ...
... endeavor to enliven this plain and honest letter with Ovid's relation about Cybele's image . The ship wherein it was aboard was stranded at the mouth of the Tyber , and the men were unable to move it , till Claudia , a virgin , but ...
Page 38
... endeavor to live hereafter suitable to a man in my station , as a prudent head of a family , a good husband , a careful father ( when it shall so happen ) , the town . and as " Your most sincere friend , " and humble servant , “ WILLIAM ...
... endeavor to live hereafter suitable to a man in my station , as a prudent head of a family , a good husband , a careful father ( when it shall so happen ) , the town . and as " Your most sincere friend , " and humble servant , “ WILLIAM ...
Page 43
... endeavor to set forth the horror and profaneness of such a practice . The very mention of it exposes it sufficiently to those in whom the light of nature , not to say religion , is not utterly extin- guished . No. 532 . MONDAY ...
... endeavor to set forth the horror and profaneness of such a practice . The very mention of it exposes it sufficiently to those in whom the light of nature , not to say religion , is not utterly extin- guished . No. 532 . MONDAY ...
Page 75
... endeavor to glory at their expence becomes a ground of quarrel , and the scorn and indifference with which they entertain it , begins the immediate punishment ; and indeed ( if we should even go no farther ) silence , or a negligent ...
... endeavor to glory at their expence becomes a ground of quarrel , and the scorn and indifference with which they entertain it , begins the immediate punishment ; and indeed ( if we should even go no farther ) silence , or a negligent ...
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