The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 3J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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Page 19
... passions and sentiments , as particularly from its love of existence , its horror of annihilation , and its hopes of immortality , with that sweet satisfaction which it finds in the prac- tice of virtue , and that uneasiness which ...
... passions and sentiments , as particularly from its love of existence , its horror of annihilation , and its hopes of immortality , with that sweet satisfaction which it finds in the prac- tice of virtue , and that uneasiness which ...
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... eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken , in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , establish his soul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , 20 No. 111 . THE SPECTATOR .
... eggs and dies . But a man can never have taken , in his full measure of knowledge , has not time to subdue his passions , establish his soul in virtue , and come up to the perfection of his nature , 20 No. 111 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... passion by the methods which serve only to imprint it deeper . She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world . ' Here followed a profound silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my friend falling so na- turally into ...
... passion by the methods which serve only to imprint it deeper . She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world . ' Here followed a profound silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my friend falling so na- turally into ...
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... passion for the widow abated , and old age came on , he left off fox - hunting , but a hare is not yet safe that sits within ten miles of his house . There is no kind of exercise which I would so recommend to my readers of both sex as ...
... passion for the widow abated , and old age came on , he left off fox - hunting , but a hare is not yet safe that sits within ten miles of his house . There is no kind of exercise which I would so recommend to my readers of both sex as ...
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... passion as I have had is never well cured : and between you and me , I am often apt to imagine it has had some whim- sical effect upon my brain : for I frequently find , that in my most serious discourse I let fall some comical ...
... passion as I have had is never well cured : and between you and me , I am often apt to imagine it has had some whim- sical effect upon my brain : for I frequently find , that in my most serious discourse I let fall some comical ...
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