The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... thought the best employment of human wit ; other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only ... thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning , as it is of more consequence to adjust the true ...
... thought the best employment of human wit ; other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only ... thoughts ; an inquiry into which as much exceeds all other learning , as it is of more consequence to adjust the true ...
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... thoughts , he ought to conclude , not ( as is too usual among taste- less readers ) that the author wants those ... thought clothed in Cicero's language , and that of a common author , as in seeing an object by the light of a taper ...
... thoughts , he ought to conclude , not ( as is too usual among taste- less readers ) that the author wants those ... thought clothed in Cicero's language , and that of a common author , as in seeing an object by the light of a taper ...
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... thought I sat me down on a bank of flowers , and dropt into a slumber , which , whether it were the effect of fumes and vapours , or my present thoughts , I know not ; but methought the genius of the garden stood before me , and ...
... thought I sat me down on a bank of flowers , and dropt into a slumber , which , whether it were the effect of fumes and vapours , or my present thoughts , I know not ; but methought the genius of the garden stood before me , and ...
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VOL XII | 1 |
Happiness of Dependence on the | 3 |
CHEERFULNESS preferable to Mirth ADDISON | 8 |
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