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Page 10
The family is the proper province for private women to shine in . If they must be shewing their zeal for the publick , let it not be against those who are perhaps of the fame family , or at least of the fame religion or nation ...
The family is the proper province for private women to shine in . If they must be shewing their zeal for the publick , let it not be against those who are perhaps of the fame family , or at least of the fame religion or nation ...
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... which is only to give an honest man , who takes care of my estate , proper vouchers for his quarterly payments to me , and observe what linen laundress brings and takes away with her once a week : My steward brings his receipt ready ...
... which is only to give an honest man , who takes care of my estate , proper vouchers for his quarterly payments to me , and observe what linen laundress brings and takes away with her once a week : My steward brings his receipt ready ...
Page 18
... I thought it very proper to take minutes of what passed in that age , for the instruction of this . The antiquary , who lent me these papers , gave me a character of Eucrate , the favourite of Pharamond , extracted from an author ...
... I thought it very proper to take minutes of what passed in that age , for the instruction of this . The antiquary , who lent me these papers , gave me a character of Eucrate , the favourite of Pharamond , extracted from an author ...
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The incidents grow out of the subject , and are such as are the most proper to excite pity ; for which reason the whole narration has something in it very moving , rotwithstanding the author of it ( whoever he was ) has delivered it in ...
The incidents grow out of the subject , and are such as are the most proper to excite pity ; for which reason the whole narration has something in it very moving , rotwithstanding the author of it ( whoever he was ) has delivered it in ...
Page 41
Though , I muft confess , if one did believe that the departed fouls of men and women waną dered up and down these lower regions , and entertained themselves with the fight of their species , one could not devise a more proper hell for ...
Though , I muft confess , if one did believe that the departed fouls of men and women waną dered up and down these lower regions , and entertained themselves with the fight of their species , one could not devise a more proper hell for ...
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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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