quote · Legacy record
It is a great ease to have one in our own shape a species below us, and who, without being enlisted in our service, is by nature of our retinue.
It is a great ease to have one in our own shape a species below us, and who, without being enlisted in our service, is by nature of our retinue.
Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Sir Richard Steele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1671–1729)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Steele. · page_198
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