The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... happy contagion in riches , as well as a destructive one in poverty : the rich can make rich without parting with any of their store , and the conversation of the poor makes men poor , though they borrow nothing of them . How this is to ...
... happy contagion in riches , as well as a destructive one in poverty : the rich can make rich without parting with any of their store , and the conversation of the poor makes men poor , though they borrow nothing of them . How this is to ...
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... happy temper , which in the highest degree gratified his people's vanity , did him more service with his loving subjects than all his other virtues , though it must be confessed , he had many . He delighted , though a mighty King , to ...
... happy temper , which in the highest degree gratified his people's vanity , did him more service with his loving subjects than all his other virtues , though it must be confessed , he had many . He delighted , though a mighty King , to ...
Page 75
... to be merry at the expense of your reason , nor serious with the loss of your good - humor ; but , by a happy mixture in his temper , they either go together , or perpetually succeed each other No. 467 . 75 THE SPECTATOR .
... to be merry at the expense of your reason , nor serious with the loss of your good - humor ; but , by a happy mixture in his temper , they either go together , or perpetually succeed each other No. 467 . 75 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 91
... happy who enjoys it . This proposition must be very evident to those who consider how few are the present enjoyments of the most happy man , and how insufficient to give him an entire satisfaction and acquiescence in them . My next ...
... happy who enjoys it . This proposition must be very evident to those who consider how few are the present enjoyments of the most happy man , and how insufficient to give him an entire satisfaction and acquiescence in them . My next ...
Page 98
... happy hand has brought and restored to sight several hundreds in less than four years . Many have received sight by his means who came blind from their mother's womb , as in the famous instance of Jones of Newington . I myself have been ...
... happy hand has brought and restored to sight several hundreds in less than four years . Many have received sight by his means who came blind from their mother's womb , as in the famous instance of Jones of Newington . I myself have been ...
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