The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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... time , removes them from the envy of man- kind , is the hearty prayer of , My LORD , Your Grace's most obedient , most devoted , humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . THE SPECTATOR . No. 259 . THURSDAY , December 27 vi DEDICATION .
... time , removes them from the envy of man- kind , is the hearty prayer of , My LORD , Your Grace's most obedient , most devoted , humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . THE SPECTATOR . No. 259 . THURSDAY , December 27 vi DEDICATION .
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... kind are outward civilities and salutations . These one would imagine might be regulated by every man's common sense , without the help of an instructor ; but that which we call common sense suffers under that word : for it some- times ...
... kind are outward civilities and salutations . These one would imagine might be regulated by every man's common sense , without the help of an instructor ; but that which we call common sense suffers under that word : for it some- times ...
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... kind . Of this sort may be a man who is in the fifth or sixth degree of favor with a minister : this good creature is resolved to show the world , that great honors cannot at all change his manners , he is the same civil person he ever ...
... kind . Of this sort may be a man who is in the fifth or sixth degree of favor with a minister : this good creature is resolved to show the world , that great honors cannot at all change his manners , he is the same civil person he ever ...
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... kind given to our Protestant dissenters from the outward pomp and respect we take to ourselves in our reli- gious assemblies . A Quaker , who came one day into a church , fixed his eye upon an old lady with a carpet larger than that ...
... kind given to our Protestant dissenters from the outward pomp and respect we take to ourselves in our reli- gious assemblies . A Quaker , who came one day into a church , fixed his eye upon an old lady with a carpet larger than that ...
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... kind of errors which he himself was guilty of with an eye of scorn , and with that sort of ill - will which men entertain against each other for different opin- ions . Thus a crazy constitution and an uneasy mind is fretted with ...
... kind of errors which he himself was guilty of with an eye of scorn , and with that sort of ill - will which men entertain against each other for different opin- ions . Thus a crazy constitution and an uneasy mind is fretted with ...
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