The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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Side 16
That author , in the famous story of Antiochus , who fell in love with Stratonice , his mother - in - law , and ( not daring to discover his passion ) pretended to be confined to his bed by sickness , tells us , that Erasistratus ...
That author , in the famous story of Antiochus , who fell in love with Stratonice , his mother - in - law , and ( not daring to discover his passion ) pretended to be confined to his bed by sickness , tells us , that Erasistratus ...
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... as it is a virtue , I must observe , that there is a vicious modesty , which justly deserves to be ridiculed , and which those persons very often discover , who value themselves most upon a well - bred confidence .
... as it is a virtue , I must observe , that there is a vicious modesty , which justly deserves to be ridiculed , and which those persons very often discover , who value themselves most upon a well - bred confidence .
Side 24
Cinædus , after having entered his own name in the Pythian records , being asked the name of the person whom he leaped for , and being ashamed to discover it , he was set aside , and not suffered to leap .
Cinædus , after having entered his own name in the Pythian records , being asked the name of the person whom he leaped for , and being ashamed to discover it , he was set aside , and not suffered to leap .
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It is to be considered that Providence , in its œconomy , regards the whole system of time and things together , so that we cannot discover the beautiful connexions between incidents which lie widely separated in time , No. 237 .
It is to be considered that Providence , in its œconomy , regards the whole system of time and things together , so that we cannot discover the beautiful connexions between incidents which lie widely separated in time , No. 237 .
Side 54
As there are many eminent critics who never writ a good line , there are many admirable buffoons that animadvert upon every single defect in another , without ever discovering the least beauty of their own .
As there are many eminent critics who never writ a good line , there are many admirable buffoons that animadvert upon every single defect in another , without ever discovering the least beauty of their own .
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