The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Page 69
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face , on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Mo- tion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face , on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Mo- tion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
Page 74
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind , it is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind , it is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
Page 99
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? " SIR , TO THE SPECTATOR , CREECH . " I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and it ...
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? " SIR , TO THE SPECTATOR , CREECH . " I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and it ...
Page 122
... far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a prodigious number of people it maintains , and what a circulation of money it occasions . Providence in this 132 No. 478 THE SPECTATOR . No. 478. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1712. ...
... far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a prodigious number of people it maintains , and what a circulation of money it occasions . Providence in this 132 No. 478 THE SPECTATOR . No. 478. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1712. ...
Page 124
... dress of negligence shall be but coldly received , till he be proved by time , and esta- blished in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own knowledge so very often . that we concluded the author ...
... dress of negligence shall be but coldly received , till he be proved by time , and esta- blished in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own knowledge so very often . that we concluded the author ...
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