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If you want to make a focused argument about discipline, you weaken it by obnubilating about “one parliamentary party”.
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Platonists was Henry More, one of whose hooks Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with the 'foul steam of earthly life.'
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She writes in such an obnubilating manner, sometimes it is not exactly clear as to what she means.
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She writes in such an obnubilating manner, sometimes it is not exactly clear as to what she means.
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The last of our own Platonists was Henry More, one of whose books Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with 'the foul steam of earthly life.'] [Footnote 2: which] [Footnote 3: Paraphrased from the 'Academe Galante' (Ed. 1708, p. 160).] [Footnote 4: couple] *****
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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