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" In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the -world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species... "
the de coverley papers from the spectator - Page ix
by SAMUEL THRBER - 1898
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than...myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artizan, without ever meddling with any practical part in my life. I am very well versed in the theory...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...a cluster of people, I mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. "Thus I live in the world rather as a 'Spectator' of mankind than...myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artizan, without ever meddling in any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of...
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Miscellanies...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...myself a speeulative statesman, soldier, merehant, and artisan, without ever meddling in any praetical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of a husband or a father, and can disceru, the errors in the eeonomy, business, and diversious of others, better than those who are engaged...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...would burn my s .t iiir=:1 T-.a f.rit ; ; UTI- .u: : 1 ' » S"-— found silence,' and in mature age lived in the world ' rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species.' He announces his intention of publishing 'a sheet full of thoughts ' every morning ; repudiates political...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...Spectator abound. ! See the preface to Addison's works, by Tickell. found silence,' and in mature age lived in the world ' rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species.' He announces his intention of publishing 'a sheet full of thoughts ' every morning ; repudiates political...
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The Civil Service Handbook of English Literature: For the Use of Candidates ...

Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...from the introductory paper will explain the title : — ' I live in the World,' says the writer, ' rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the...myself a Speculative Statesman, Soldier, Merchant, and Artizan, without ever meddling with any Practical Part in Life. I am very well versed in the • Preface...
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Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind n , than as one of the species, by which means I have...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...
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Selections from Addison's papers contributed to the Spectator, ed. by T. Arnold

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind n, than as one of the species, by which means I have...husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the ceconomy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...
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Time, Volume 5

Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1881 - 752 pages
...uneasily, discarded gladly. Nature designed me for & looker-on. 'Thus,' writes ihe Spectator, 'I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than...without ever meddling with any practical part in life.' Thus have I made myself a speculative cricketer, selfcontained, equal to either fate. I share the honours...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...a cluster of people, I mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. " Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than...soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling in any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of a husband or a father, and can...
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