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Pagina 144
... due Time re- moves them from the Envy of Mankind , is the hearty Prayer of , My LORD , Your Grace's moft Obedient , moft Devoted , Humble Servant . The SPECTATOR . THE SPECTATOR . VOL . IV .. No. 252. Wednesday The Dedication .
... due Time re- moves them from the Envy of Mankind , is the hearty Prayer of , My LORD , Your Grace's moft Obedient , moft Devoted , Humble Servant . The SPECTATOR . THE SPECTATOR . VOL . IV .. No. 252. Wednesday The Dedication .
Pagina 147
... Servant , Barbara Crabtree , Mr. SPECTATOR , HOUGH I am a Practitioner in the Law of fome fanding , and have heard many eminent Pleaders in my Time , as well as other eloquent Speakers of both • Universities , yet I agree with you ...
... Servant , Barbara Crabtree , Mr. SPECTATOR , HOUGH I am a Practitioner in the Law of fome fanding , and have heard many eminent Pleaders in my Time , as well as other eloquent Speakers of both • Universities , yet I agree with you ...
Pagina 148
... Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ⚫ferious Occafions in Life , to adorn generous Pity , true Penitence , or real Sorrow . · T I am , & c . No. 253. Thursday , December 20 . Indignor quicquam reprehendi , non quia ...
... Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ⚫ferious Occafions in Life , to adorn generous Pity , true Penitence , or real Sorrow . · T I am , & c . No. 253. Thursday , December 20 . Indignor quicquam reprehendi , non quia ...
Pagina 154
... Servant , Lydia . BE not in Pain , good Madam , for my Appearance in Town ; I fhall frequent no publick Places , nor make any Vifits where the Character of a modest Wife is ri- diculous : As for your wild Rallery on Matrimony , ' tis ...
... Servant , Lydia . BE not in Pain , good Madam , for my Appearance in Town ; I fhall frequent no publick Places , nor make any Vifits where the Character of a modest Wife is ri- diculous : As for your wild Rallery on Matrimony , ' tis ...
Pagina 155
... Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that is ferious , if do not fend me a plain Anfwer to this : I happened fome Days paft to be at the Play ...
... Servant , Mary Home . Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , you OU have no Goodness in the World , and are not in Earnest in any Thing you fay that is ferious , if do not fend me a plain Anfwer to this : I happened fome Days paft to be at the Play ...
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Pagina 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points of incarnation and redemption, (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
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