The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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Page 69
... desire my reader to consider every particular paper or dis- course as a distinct tract by itself , and independent of every- thing that goes before or after it . I shall end this paper with the following letter , which was really sent ...
... desire my reader to consider every particular paper or dis- course as a distinct tract by itself , and independent of every- thing that goes before or after it . I shall end this paper with the following letter , which was really sent ...
Page 85
... desire it , shall be published hereafter till which time I must entreat the courteous reader to suspend his curiosity , and rather to consider what is written , than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all necessary ...
... desire it , shall be published hereafter till which time I must entreat the courteous reader to suspend his curiosity , and rather to consider what is written , than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all necessary ...
Page 88
... desire me to give over , for that ? he would have no such doings in his house . I have not been long in this nation , before I was told by one , for whom I had asked a certain favour from the chief of the king's servants , whom they ...
... desire me to give over , for that ? he would have no such doings in his house . I have not been long in this nation , before I was told by one , for whom I had asked a certain favour from the chief of the king's servants , whom they ...
Page 117
... desire of them . If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind , body , or fortune , it makes him easy under them . It has , in- deed , a kindly influence on the soul of man , in respect of every being to whom he ...
... desire of them . If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind , body , or fortune , it makes him easy under them . It has , in- deed , a kindly influence on the soul of man , in respect of every being to whom he ...
Page 118
... desires , enjoy all that secret satisfaction which others are always in quest of . The truth is , this ridiculous chase after imaginary pleasures cannot be sufficiently ex- posed , as it is the great source of those evils which ...
... desires , enjoy all that secret satisfaction which others are always in quest of . The truth is , this ridiculous chase after imaginary pleasures cannot be sufficiently ex- posed , as it is the great source of those evils which ...
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