The Spectator. ...H. Hughs, 1789 |
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a ftupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a ftupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
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... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modefty , and affift his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper affurance in his own vindication . He fays it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modefty , and affift his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper affurance in his own vindication . He fays it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
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... figure , as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us , his hero received as a prefent from Eolus . The great heaps of gold on ...
... figure , as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us , his hero received as a prefent from Eolus . The great heaps of gold on ...
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... figure , enjoys the pleasures of retire- ment in a more exquifite degree , than he pof- fibly could in his clofet ; the lover , the ambi- C 4 tious , tious , and the mifer , are followed thither by N ° 4. THE SPECTATOR . 23.
... figure , enjoys the pleasures of retire- ment in a more exquifite degree , than he pof- fibly could in his clofet ; the lover , the ambi- C 4 tious , tious , and the mifer , are followed thither by N ° 4. THE SPECTATOR . 23.
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