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Side 1
... I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life .
... I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and artizan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life .
Side 8
It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person to be found , who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue .
It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person to be found , who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue .
Side 31
The inscription is answerable to the prehended in those two circumstances that are monument ; for , instead of celebrating the many common to all mankind . I could not but look upon remarkable actions he had performed in the service ...
The inscription is answerable to the prehended in those two circumstances that are monument ; for , instead of celebrating the many common to all mankind . I could not but look upon remarkable actions he had performed in the service ...
Side 40
THE club of which I am a member , is very luckily composed of such persons as are engaged in different ways of life , and deputed as it were out of the most conspicuous classes of mankind . By this means I am furnished with the greatest ...
THE club of which I am a member , is very luckily composed of such persons as are engaged in different ways of life , and deputed as it were out of the most conspicuous classes of mankind . By this means I am furnished with the greatest ...
Side 41
... and question not mankind , put me in mind of that which the Roman but several English readers will be as much startled triumvirate were formerly engaged in for their de- to hear me affirm , that many of those raving instruction .
... and question not mankind , put me in mind of that which the Roman but several English readers will be as much startled triumvirate were formerly engaged in for their de- to hear me affirm , that many of those raving instruction .
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ... Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1822 |
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