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Page 9
... appear : improbable to those who live at a distance from the fahionable.world : but as it is a distinction of a very fingular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office ...
... appear : improbable to those who live at a distance from the fahionable.world : but as it is a distinction of a very fingular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office ...
Page 12
Yet such is the loofe and abandoned turn of some mens . minds , that they can live under these constant apprekenfions , and still go on to increase the cause of them .. Can there be a more low.and fervile condition , than to be ashamed ...
Yet such is the loofe and abandoned turn of some mens . minds , that they can live under these constant apprekenfions , and still go on to increase the cause of them .. Can there be a more low.and fervile condition , than to be ashamed ...
Page 45
Flavia is no way dependent on her mother with relation to her fortune , for which reason they live almost upon an equality in converfation , and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling ...
Flavia is no way dependent on her mother with relation to her fortune , for which reason they live almost upon an equality in converfation , and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling ...
Page 64
That there are mcn of sense who live « in servitude , I have the vanity to say I have felt to my . ' weful experience . You attribute very juftly the source • of our general iniquity to board - wages , and the man• ner of living out of ...
That there are mcn of sense who live « in servitude , I have the vanity to say I have felt to my . ' weful experience . You attribute very juftly the source • of our general iniquity to board - wages , and the man• ner of living out of ...
Page 68
In the family 1 ani ' now in , I am guilty of no one sin but lying ; which I ' do with a grave face in my gown and staff every • day I live , and almost all day long , in denying my lord to impertinent suitors , and my lady to unwelcome ...
In the family 1 ani ' now in , I am guilty of no one sin but lying ; which I ' do with a grave face in my gown and staff every • day I live , and almost all day long , in denying my lord to impertinent suitors , and my lady to unwelcome ...
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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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