The Spectator, Volumen8William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... conversation at their own houses . The hours of the day and night are taken up in the cities of London and Westminster by people as dif- ferent from each other as those who are born in diffe- rent centuries . Men of six o'clock give way ...
... conversation at their own houses . The hours of the day and night are taken up in the cities of London and Westminster by people as dif- ferent from each other as those who are born in diffe- rent centuries . Men of six o'clock give way ...
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... conversation of the poor makes men poor , though they borrow nothing of them . How this is to be accounted for I know not ; but men's estimation follows us according to the com- pany we keep . If you are what you were to me , you can go ...
... conversation of the poor makes men poor , though they borrow nothing of them . How this is to be accounted for I know not ; but men's estimation follows us according to the com- pany we keep . If you are what you were to me , you can go ...
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... conversation , that an Englishman is apt to term them hypocritical and precise . This little appearance of a religious deportment in our nation may proceed in some measure from that modesty which is natural to us ; but the great occa ...
... conversation , that an Englishman is apt to term them hypocritical and precise . This little appearance of a religious deportment in our nation may proceed in some measure from that modesty which is natural to us ; but the great occa ...
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... conversation , and which distinguishes us from all our neighbors . Hypocrisy cannot indeed be too much detested , but at the same time is to be preferred to open impiety . They are both equally destructive to the person who is possessed ...
... conversation , and which distinguishes us from all our neighbors . Hypocrisy cannot indeed be too much detested , but at the same time is to be preferred to open impiety . They are both equally destructive to the person who is possessed ...
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... conversation is always enlivened with his wit and hu- mor , and the gaiety of it is tempered with something that is instructive , as well as barely agreeable . Thus with him you are sure not to be merry at the expense of your reason ...
... conversation is always enlivened with his wit and hu- mor , and the gaiety of it is tempered with something that is instructive , as well as barely agreeable . Thus with him you are sure not to be merry at the expense of your reason ...
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