The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page xii
... heard ; and this through incapacity or prejudice , one of which disables almost every man who talks to you from re- presenting things as he ought . For which reason I am come to a resolution of believing nothing I hear ; and I contemn ...
... heard ; and this through incapacity or prejudice , one of which disables almost every man who talks to you from re- presenting things as he ought . For which reason I am come to a resolution of believing nothing I hear ; and I contemn ...
Page xiii
... heard any narration uttered with extraordinary vehemence , and grounded upon considerable authori- ty , I was always ready to lay any wager that it was not SO . Indeed , I never pretended to be so rash as to fix the matter any ...
... heard any narration uttered with extraordinary vehemence , and grounded upon considerable authori- ty , I was always ready to lay any wager that it was not SO . Indeed , I never pretended to be so rash as to fix the matter any ...
Page xiv
... heard him with the same greediness as Shakespeare describes in the following lines : ' I saw a smith stand on his hammer , thus , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . " " I confess of late I have not been so much amazed at the ...
... heard him with the same greediness as Shakespeare describes in the following lines : ' I saw a smith stand on his hammer , thus , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . " " I confess of late I have not been so much amazed at the ...
Page xv
... heard one of our ingenious writers of news say , that when he has had a customer come with an advertisement of an apprentice or a wife run away , he has desired the ad- vertiser to compose himself a little before he dictat- ed the ...
... heard one of our ingenious writers of news say , that when he has had a customer come with an advertisement of an apprentice or a wife run away , he has desired the ad- vertiser to compose himself a little before he dictat- ed the ...
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... heard that afternoon in my parish - church . Among other observations , the preacher shewed us , that the temptations which the tempter proposed were all on a supposition that we are either madmen or fools , or with an intention to ...
... heard that afternoon in my parish - church . Among other observations , the preacher shewed us , that the temptations which the tempter proposed were all on a supposition that we are either madmen or fools , or with an intention to ...
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