The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... given you , is , that there is a certain equanimity in those who are good and just , which runs into their very sorrow , and disappoints the force of it . Though they must pass through afflictions in common with all who are in hu- man ...
... given you , is , that there is a certain equanimity in those who are good and just , which runs into their very sorrow , and disappoints the force of it . Though they must pass through afflictions in common with all who are in hu- man ...
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... given to narrations under the appellation of a matter - of - fact man ; and , according to me , a matter - of - fact man is one whose life and con- versation is spent in the report of what is not matter of fact . " I remember when ...
... given to narrations under the appellation of a matter - of - fact man ; and , according to me , a matter - of - fact man is one whose life and con- versation is spent in the report of what is not matter of fact . " I remember when ...
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... given in my estate to your counsel , and desired my own lawyer to insist upon no terms which your friends can propose for your certain ease and advantage ; for indeed I have no notion of making dif- ficulties of presenting you with what ...
... given in my estate to your counsel , and desired my own lawyer to insist upon no terms which your friends can propose for your certain ease and advantage ; for indeed I have no notion of making dif- ficulties of presenting you with what ...
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... given a new life , and a more natural beauty to this way of writing , by substituting , in the place of those anti- quated fables , the superstitious mythology which pre- vails among the shepherds of our own country . Virgil and Homer ...
... given a new life , and a more natural beauty to this way of writing , by substituting , in the place of those anti- quated fables , the superstitious mythology which pre- vails among the shepherds of our own country . Virgil and Homer ...
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... given me to heras a mutual grant of joy and felicity . " No. 526. MONDAY , November 3 , 1712 BY STEELE . -Fortius utere loris . Keep a stiff rein . OVID . Met . 1. 2. v . 127 . ADDISON , I AM very loth to come to extremities with the ...
... given me to heras a mutual grant of joy and felicity . " No. 526. MONDAY , November 3 , 1712 BY STEELE . -Fortius utere loris . Keep a stiff rein . OVID . Met . 1. 2. v . 127 . ADDISON , I AM very loth to come to extremities with the ...
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