The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 2G. Bell, 1881 |
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... virtue , knowledge , or capacity in business , either military or civil . This select assembly was drawn up in the centre of a prodigious multitude , which was diffused on all sides , and stood observing them , as idle people use to ...
... virtue , knowledge , or capacity in business , either military or civil . This select assembly was drawn up in the centre of a prodigious multitude , which was diffused on all sides , and stood observing them , as idle people use to ...
Page 85
... virtue . I would undertake to find out all the persons of sense and breeding by the effect of a single sentence , and to distinguish a gen- tleman as much by his laugh as his bow . When we see the footman and his lord diverted by the ...
... virtue . I would undertake to find out all the persons of sense and breeding by the effect of a single sentence , and to distinguish a gen- tleman as much by his laugh as his bow . When we see the footman and his lord diverted by the ...
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... virtue . For this reason , the virtue which we gather from a fable , or an allegory , is like the health we get by hunting ; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure , and makes us insensible of the ...
... virtue . For this reason , the virtue which we gather from a fable , or an allegory , is like the health we get by hunting ; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure , and makes us insensible of the ...
Contents
THE TATLER | 5 |
Bickerstaff family | 75 |
Continuance of the Vision of the Goddess of Justice | 102 |
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