The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... greater misfortunes which might have befallen him . I like the story of the honest Dutchman , who , upon breaking his leg by a fall from the mainmast , told the standers - by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck . To which ...
... greater misfortunes which might have befallen him . I like the story of the honest Dutchman , who , upon breaking his leg by a fall from the mainmast , told the standers - by , it was a great mercy that it was not his neck . To which ...
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... greater hero of the two . ' I shall close this subject with observing , that while we are awake we are at liberty to fix our thoughts on what we please , but in sleep we have not the com- mand of them . The ideas which strike the fancy ...
... greater hero of the two . ' I shall close this subject with observing , that while we are awake we are at liberty to fix our thoughts on what we please , but in sleep we have not the com- mand of them . The ideas which strike the fancy ...
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... greater pleasure from a bare review of his works than from the survey of his own ideas ; but we may be assured that he is well pleased in the satisfaction de- rived to beings capable of it , and for whose entertain- ment he hath erected ...
... greater pleasure from a bare review of his works than from the survey of his own ideas ; but we may be assured that he is well pleased in the satisfaction de- rived to beings capable of it , and for whose entertain- ment he hath erected ...
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