The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 - 361 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the British Common . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to ex- tend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the British Common . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to ex- tend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got ...
Pagina 10
... figure , especially in a military way , muft get over all falfe modefty , and affift his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper affurance in his own vindication . He fays it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
... figure , especially in a military way , muft get over all falfe modefty , and affift his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper affurance in his own vindication . He fays it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
Pagina 15
... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a prefent from Ĉolus . The great heaps of gold on either ...
... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a prefent from Ĉolus . The great heaps of gold on either ...
Pagina 17
... figure , enjoys the pleafures of retirement ' in a more exquifite degree , than he poffibly could in his clofet ; the lover , the ambitious , and the mifer , are followed thither by a worse crowd than any they can withdraw from . To be ...
... figure , enjoys the pleafures of retirement ' in a more exquifite degree , than he poffibly could in his clofet ; the lover , the ambitious , and the mifer , are followed thither by a worse crowd than any they can withdraw from . To be ...
Pagina 30
... figure I made , after having done all this mifchief . I difpatched my dinner as foon as I could , with my ufual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confufion , the Lady feeing me qutting . my knife and fork , and laying them across one an ...
... figure I made , after having done all this mifchief . I difpatched my dinner as foon as I could , with my ufual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confufion , the Lady feeing me qutting . my knife and fork , and laying them across one an ...
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