The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... reason , I cannot forbear amusing myself with finding out a general , an admiral , or an alderman of London , a divine , a physician , or a lawyer , among my little people who are now , perhaps , in petticoats ; and when I see the ...
... reason , I cannot forbear amusing myself with finding out a general , an admiral , or an alderman of London , a divine , a physician , or a lawyer , among my little people who are now , perhaps , in petticoats ; and when I see the ...
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... reason , as they recommended moral duties to qualify and season the will for a future life , so they prescribe several contemplations and sciences to rec- tify the understanding . Thus Plato has called mathematical demonstrations the ...
... reason , as they recommended moral duties to qualify and season the will for a future life , so they prescribe several contemplations and sciences to rec- tify the understanding . Thus Plato has called mathematical demonstrations the ...
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... reason for it but that , in compar- ing us with himself , he thinks us defective either in our con- duct or our understanding . For these reasons there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable ; and , indeed , all ...
... reason for it but that , in compar- ing us with himself , he thinks us defective either in our con- duct or our understanding . For these reasons there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable ; and , indeed , all ...
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... reason the Absalon and Achitophel was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . The poetry is indeed very fine , but had it been much finer it would not have so much pleased , without a plan which gave the reader an ...
... reason the Absalon and Achitophel was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . The poetry is indeed very fine , but had it been much finer it would not have so much pleased , without a plan which gave the reader an ...
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... reason I give it a place in the paper of this day . 66 SIR , 66 The indisposition which has long hung upon me is at last grown to such a head , that it must quickly make an end of me , or of itself . You may imagine , that whilst I am ...
... reason I give it a place in the paper of this day . 66 SIR , 66 The indisposition which has long hung upon me is at last grown to such a head , that it must quickly make an end of me , or of itself . You may imagine , that whilst I am ...
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