The Spectator, Volume 2George Gregory Smith Dent, 1966 |
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Pagina 260
... Fame naturally betrays him into such Indecencies as are a lessening to his Reputation , and is it self looked upon as a Weakness in the greatest Characters . In the next Place , Fame is easily lost , and as difficult to be preserved as ...
... Fame naturally betrays him into such Indecencies as are a lessening to his Reputation , and is it self looked upon as a Weakness in the greatest Characters . In the next Place , Fame is easily lost , and as difficult to be preserved as ...
Pagina 263
... Fame is a Good so wholly foreign to our Natures , that we have no Faculty in the Soul adapted to it , nor any Organ in the Body to relish it ; an Object of Desire placed out of the Possibility of Fruition . It may in- deed fill the Mind ...
... Fame is a Good so wholly foreign to our Natures , that we have no Faculty in the Soul adapted to it , nor any Organ in the Body to relish it ; an Object of Desire placed out of the Possibility of Fruition . It may in- deed fill the Mind ...
Pagina 264
... Fame , than he could have been pleased with the Enjoyment of it . For tho ' the Presence of this imaginary Good cannot make us happy , the Absence of it may make us miserable : Because in the Enjoyment of an Object we only find that ...
... Fame , than he could have been pleased with the Enjoyment of it . For tho ' the Presence of this imaginary Good cannot make us happy , the Absence of it may make us miserable : Because in the Enjoyment of an Object we only find that ...
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