The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... my last moments I should feel the same comfort for my goodness to her , as she did in that she had acquitted herself with honor , truth , and virtue , to me . " I curb myself , and will not tell you ' No. 520 . IX THE SPECTATOR .
... my last moments I should feel the same comfort for my goodness to her , as she did in that she had acquitted herself with honor , truth , and virtue , to me . " I curb myself , and will not tell you ' No. 520 . IX THE SPECTATOR .
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... virtue in the hour of affliction . I sat down with a de- sign to put you upon giving us rules how to overcome such griefs as these , but I should rather advise you teach men to be capable of them . to " You men of letters have what you ...
... virtue in the hour of affliction . I sat down with a de- sign to put you upon giving us rules how to overcome such griefs as these , but I should rather advise you teach men to be capable of them . to " You men of letters have what you ...
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... virtue of that Spectatorial authority with which I stand in- vested . " WHEREAS , the time of a general peace , is , in all appearance , drawing near , being informed that there are several ingenious persons who intend to show their ...
... virtue of that Spectatorial authority with which I stand in- vested . " WHEREAS , the time of a general peace , is , in all appearance , drawing near , being informed that there are several ingenious persons who intend to show their ...
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... virtue , and great folly of vice , from an excellent sermon I had 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 ...
... virtue , and great folly of vice , from an excellent sermon I had 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 ...
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... virtues in them ; so that whosoever had made some considerable progress in his journey on- wards towards the pillar , by the repeated impression of these rays upon him , was wrought into an habitual inclination and conversion of his ...
... virtues in them ; so that whosoever had made some considerable progress in his journey on- wards towards the pillar , by the repeated impression of these rays upon him , was wrought into an habitual inclination and conversion of his ...
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