The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 4William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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Page 10
... falls a ringing a Pes- cennius Niger , and judiciously distinguishes the sound of it to be modern . A third desires you to observe well the Toga on such a reverse , and asks you whether you can in conscience believe the sleeve of it to ...
... falls a ringing a Pes- cennius Niger , and judiciously distinguishes the sound of it to be modern . A third desires you to observe well the Toga on such a reverse , and asks you whether you can in conscience believe the sleeve of it to ...
Page 11
... fall into burlesque . But it is still more natural to laugh at such studies as are employed on low and vulgar objects . What curious observations have been made on spiders , lobsters , and cockle - shells ? yet the very naming of them ...
... fall into burlesque . But it is still more natural to laugh at such studies as are employed on low and vulgar objects . What curious observations have been made on spiders , lobsters , and cockle - shells ? yet the very naming of them ...
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... fall down before them . You have here too several persons of a more thin and shadowy nature , as Hope , Constancy , Fidelity , Abundance , Honour , Virtue , Eternity , Justice , Mo- deration , Happiness , and in short a whole creation ...
... fall down before them . You have here too several persons of a more thin and shadowy nature , as Hope , Constancy , Fidelity , Abundance , Honour , Virtue , Eternity , Justice , Mo- deration , Happiness , and in short a whole creation ...
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... fall in with your project . They will tell you that things of this importance must not be taken on trust ; you ought to learn them among the classic authors and at the fountain head . Pray , consider what figure a man would make in the ...
... fall in with your project . They will tell you that things of this importance must not be taken on trust ; you ought to learn them among the classic authors and at the fountain head . Pray , consider what figure a man would make in the ...
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... falling snow . Virtue and Honour had their temples bordering on each other , and are sometimes both on the same coin , as in the following one of Galba * . Silius Itali- cus makes them companions in the glorious equi- page that he gives ...
... falling snow . Virtue and Honour had their temples bordering on each other , and are sometimes both on the same coin , as in the following one of Galba * . Silius Itali- cus makes them companions in the glorious equi- page that he gives ...
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