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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Work title:
"Spectator, No. 238"
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Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"Among all the Diseases of the Mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the Love of Flattery."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"First we flatter ourselves, and then the Flattery of others is sure of Success. It awakens our Self-Love within, a Party which is ever ready to revolt from our better Judgment, and join the Enemy without."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"A good Name is fitly compared to a precious Ointment, and when we are praised with Skill and Decency, 'tis indeed the most agreeable Perfume, but if too strongly admitted into a Brain of a less vigorous and happy Texture, 'twill, like too strong an Odour, overcome the Senses, and prove perniciou...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"A good Name is fitly compared to a precious Ointment2, and when we are praised with Skill and Decency, 'tis indeed the most agreeable Perfume, but if too strongly admitted into a Brain of a less vigorous and happy Texture, 'twill, like too strong an Odour, overcome the Senses, and prove pernicio...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
