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Our gentry are , generally speaking , in debt ; and many families have put it into a kind of method of being so from generation to generation . The father mortgages when his son is very young : and the boy is to marry as soon as he is ...
Our gentry are , generally speaking , in debt ; and many families have put it into a kind of method of being so from generation to generation . The father mortgages when his son is very young : and the boy is to marry as soon as he is ...
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“ I asked him what he would have ; he said he would “ speak to Pharamond . I desired his business ; he could “ hardly say to me , Eucrate , carry me to the king , my “ story is not to be told twice ; I fear I fall not be able " to speak ...
“ I asked him what he would have ; he said he would “ speak to Pharamond . I desired his business ; he could “ hardly say to me , Eucrate , carry me to the king , my “ story is not to be told twice ; I fear I fall not be able " to speak ...
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... acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the cid ballad of The Two Children in the Wood , which is one of the darling fongs of the common people , and has been tlie delight of moft Englismen in some part of their age .
... acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the cid ballad of The Two Children in the Wood , which is one of the darling fongs of the common people , and has been tlie delight of moft Englismen in some part of their age .
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... our first going into a company of strangers , our benevolence or averfion , awe or contempt , rises naturally towards several parti cular persons , before we have heard them speak a single word , or so much as know who they are .
... our first going into a company of strangers , our benevolence or averfion , awe or contempt , rises naturally towards several parti cular persons , before we have heard them speak a single word , or so much as know who they are .
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I cannot recollect the author of a famous saying to a stranger who stood filent in his company , Speak that I ma ; jee thee . But , with submislion , I think we may be better known by our locks than by our words , and that a man's ...
I cannot recollect the author of a famous saying to a stranger who stood filent in his company , Speak that I ma ; jee thee . But , with submislion , I think we may be better known by our locks than by our words , and that a man's ...
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| Title | The Spectator .. Volume 2 of The Spectator |
| Publisher | Peter Wilson, 1755 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2020 |
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