The Spectator, Volume 1Dent, 1926 An amusing and informative record of English morals and manners in the early-eighteenth century. |
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Pagina ix
... common vice in " a new edition of a Classick Author . " The editor ventures to claim that he has avoided excess in the seductive record of Various Readings , and that he has made the few notes of " different senses " and " new elegances ...
... common vice in " a new edition of a Classick Author . " The editor ventures to claim that he has avoided excess in the seductive record of Various Readings , and that he has made the few notes of " different senses " and " new elegances ...
Pagina 9
... Common . He is acquainted with Com merce in all its Parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and eroarbarous Way to extend Dominion by Arms ; for true Power is to be got by Arts and Industry . He will often edargue , that if this ...
... Common . He is acquainted with Com merce in all its Parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and eroarbarous Way to extend Dominion by Arms ; for true Power is to be got by Arts and Industry . He will often edargue , that if this ...
Pagina 14
... Common Wealth , and a young Man of about twenty two Years of Age , whose Name I could not learn . He had a Sword in his right Hand , which in the Dance he often brandished at the Act of Settlement ; and a Citizen , who stood by me ...
... Common Wealth , and a young Man of about twenty two Years of Age , whose Name I could not learn . He had a Sword in his right Hand , which in the Dance he often brandished at the Act of Settlement ; and a Citizen , who stood by me ...
Pagina 20
... Common Sense however requires , that there should be nothing in the Scenes and Machines which may appear Childish and Absurd . How would the Wits of King Charles's Time have laughed , to have seen Nicolini exposed to a Tempest in Robes ...
... Common Sense however requires , that there should be nothing in the Scenes and Machines which may appear Childish and Absurd . How would the Wits of King Charles's Time have laughed , to have seen Nicolini exposed to a Tempest in Robes ...
Pagina 24
... common , It has diffus'd it self through both Sexes and all Qualities of Mankind ; and there is hardly that Person to be found , who is not more concern'd for the Reputation of Wit and Sense , than Honesty and Virtue . But this unhappy ...
... common , It has diffus'd it self through both Sexes and all Qualities of Mankind ; and there is hardly that Person to be found , who is not more concern'd for the Reputation of Wit and Sense , than Honesty and Virtue . But this unhappy ...
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