The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... creatures by the faculty of laughter . He has a heart capable of mirth , and naturally disposed to it . It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind , but to regulate them . It may moderate and restrain , but ...
... creatures by the faculty of laughter . He has a heart capable of mirth , and naturally disposed to it . It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind , but to regulate them . It may moderate and restrain , but ...
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... creatures , citizens , and Christians . I am pleased to see myself thus perpetuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a human creature , I am more proud of having been the occasion of ten such glorious productions ...
... creatures , citizens , and Christians . I am pleased to see myself thus perpetuated ; and as there is no production comparable to that of a human creature , I am more proud of having been the occasion of ten such glorious productions ...
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... creatures , women . Thou knowest , all the little learning I am master of is upon that subject ; I never looked in a book but for their sakes . I have lately met with two pure stories for a Spectator , which I am sure will please ...
... creatures , women . Thou knowest , all the little learning I am master of is upon that subject ; I never looked in a book but for their sakes . I have lately met with two pure stories for a Spectator , which I am sure will please ...
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... creature made on the day of my master's death . He has never joyed himself since ; no more has any of us . It was the melan- choliest day for the poor people that ever happened in Wor- cestershire . This being all from , to " Honoured ...
... creature made on the day of my master's death . He has never joyed himself since ; no more has any of us . It was the melan- choliest day for the poor people that ever happened in Wor- cestershire . This being all from , to " Honoured ...
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... creatures . The surface of animals is also covered with other animals , which are , in the same manner , the basis of other animals that live2 upon it ; nay , we find in the most solid bodies , as in marble itself , innumerable cells ...
... creatures . The surface of animals is also covered with other animals , which are , in the same manner , the basis of other animals that live2 upon it ; nay , we find in the most solid bodies , as in marble itself , innumerable cells ...
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