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... purpose , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred Writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that perfon who acted up to the perfection of human na- ture , and is the ftanding example ...
... purpose , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred Writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that perfon who acted up to the perfection of human na- ture , and is the ftanding example ...
Page 24
... offence ; and the very purposes of wantonnefs are defeated by a carriage which has in it fo much boldnefs , as to intimate that fear and reluctance reluctance are quite extinguished in an object which would be 24 No. 400 . THE SPECTATOR .
... offence ; and the very purposes of wantonnefs are defeated by a carriage which has in it fo much boldnefs , as to intimate that fear and reluctance reluctance are quite extinguished in an object which would be 24 No. 400 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... purpose of their heart , that the imagination of the unguarded is touched with a fondnefs which grows too infenfibly to be refifted . Much care and concern for the la dy's welfare , to feem afraid left the fhould be an- noyed by the ...
... purpose of their heart , that the imagination of the unguarded is touched with a fondnefs which grows too infenfibly to be refifted . Much care and concern for the la dy's welfare , to feem afraid left the fhould be an- noyed by the ...
Page 39
... purpose . The first object I met in the coffee - room was a perfon who expreffed a great grief for the death of the French King ; but upon his explaining himself , I found his forrows did did not arise from the lofs of the monarch , but ...
... purpose . The first object I met in the coffee - room was a perfon who expreffed a great grief for the death of the French King ; but upon his explaining himself , I found his forrows did did not arise from the lofs of the monarch , but ...
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... purpose , and determined it to a fet- tled course and fphere of action , from which if it in the leaft deviates , it becomes unfit to answer those ends for which it was defigned . In like man- ner it is in the difpofitions of fociety ...
... purpose , and determined it to a fet- tled course and fphere of action , from which if it in the leaft deviates , it becomes unfit to answer those ends for which it was defigned . In like man- ner it is in the difpofitions of fociety ...
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