Selections from The SpectatorMacmillan, 1895 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of an husband , or a father , and can discern the errors ...
... means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of an husband , or a father , and can discern the errors ...
Pagina 4
... mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I 30 must confess I would gratify my reader in anything that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the ...
... mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I 30 must confess I would gratify my reader in anything that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the ...
Pagina 20
... means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . 10 In the poetical quarter , I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many ...
... means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . 10 In the poetical quarter , I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many ...
Pagina 21
... means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every in- ordinate desire goes ...
... means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every in- ordinate desire goes ...
Pagina 28
... mean- ing of it among ourselves . The men of the country are very cunning and ingenious in handicraft works , but withal so very idle that we often saw young lusty raw - boned fellows carried up and down the streets in little covered ...
... mean- ing of it among ourselves . The men of the country are very cunning and ingenious in handicraft works , but withal so very idle that we often saw young lusty raw - boned fellows carried up and down the streets in little covered ...
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