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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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Will the father of his country murder his people ? But , the merciful Pharamond “ does destroy his subjects , the father of his country does “ murder his people . Fortune is so much the pursuit of ss mankind , that all glory and honour ...
Will the father of his country murder his people ? But , the merciful Pharamond “ does destroy his subjects , the father of his country does “ murder his people . Fortune is so much the pursuit of ss mankind , that all glory and honour ...
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He used always to say , That when he came to his estate I should have a lease of my father's tenement for nothing . I came up to town with him to Westminfterschool ; at which time he taught me at night all he learnt ; and put me to find ...
He used always to say , That when he came to his estate I should have a lease of my father's tenement for nothing . I came up to town with him to Westminfterschool ; at which time he taught me at night all he learnt ; and put me to find ...
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... pretended to have received a letter out of the country that my father was dying , and got my discharge 6 with a bounty for my discretion . The next I lived with was a peevith single man , whom I stayed with for a year and a half .
... pretended to have received a letter out of the country that my father was dying , and got my discharge 6 with a bounty for my discretion . The next I lived with was a peevith single man , whom I stayed with for a year and a half .
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At the same time the good old Knight , with a mixture of the father and the master of the family , tempered the enquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good - nature engages ...
At the same time the good old Knight , with a mixture of the father and the master of the family , tempered the enquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good - nature engages ...
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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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