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" I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who... "
The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII]. - Page 6
1803
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The English humourists

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 pages
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, 30 and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between...Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare my self by the hostilities of either side. ' In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as...
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...Husband or a Father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are_in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, 30 and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality...
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 422 pages
...Husband or a Father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those I have given the reader just so much of my History and Character, as to let him see I am not altogether...
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Introduction to English Literature: With Suggestions for Further Reading and ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standersby...either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts oi my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper." 225. Spirit...
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Addison

Joseph Addison - 1906 - 584 pages
...diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which 20 are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never...forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side.fln short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1906 - 284 pages
...and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots,18 which are apt to escape those who are in the game....observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,17 unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I...
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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1906 - 284 pages
...and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots,18 which are apt to escape those who are in the game....observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,17 unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I...
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Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...e or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I 20 never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...uo and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover biota which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any party 146 with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the "Wbigs and Tories, unless...
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