Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... learned professions 118 On party patches ... 122 On country manners 126 The same subject . 128 On pin money . 131 The false rumor 134 A friend of mankind brought to grief by an alchemist .. 138 POLITICS . The vision of public credit ...
... learned professions 118 On party patches ... 122 On country manners 126 The same subject . 128 On pin money . 131 The false rumor 134 A friend of mankind brought to grief by an alchemist .. 138 POLITICS . The vision of public credit ...
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... learned to appreciate somewhat the interrelationship of the members of the great literary family . Often they make independent discoveries , and report the most interesting and amusing facts , more or less germane to the strict object ...
... learned to appreciate somewhat the interrelationship of the members of the great literary family . Often they make independent discoveries , and report the most interesting and amusing facts , more or less germane to the strict object ...
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... learned body , I applied myself with so much dili- gence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the death of my father , I was ...
... learned body , I applied myself with so much dili- gence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the death of my father , I was ...
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... learned of any of the house in those of the stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better understood by him than Littleton or Coke . The father sends up every post questions relating to marriage - articles , leases and tenures , in the ...
... learned of any of the house in those of the stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better understood by him than Littleton or Coke . The father sends up every post questions relating to marriage - articles , leases and tenures , in the ...
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... learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction . The truth of it is , learning , like travelling , and all other methods of ...
... learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction . The truth of it is , learning , like travelling , and all other methods of ...
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acquainted Acts of Parliament Addison Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared audience beautiful called church coffee-house consider conversation court Coverley critics dæmon death delight discourse dress endeavor enemies English entertained essays fancy Freeport friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa honest honor humor Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady learned letter lion live look mankind manner master mind morning nature never observed occasion ordinary paper particular party passed passion person pleased pleasure poet Pope reader reason republic of letters Roger de Coverley Roger hearing servants Shalum short side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker soul Spanish monarchy Spectator take notice Tatler tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told Tory town Virgil virtue walk Westminster Abbey Whig whole widow Wimble words writing young