The Spectator ...1776 |
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... give an account of this surprising change which has been produced in me , and which I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as any recorded in hiftory , fince that which happened to the fon of Cræfus , after having been many years ...
... give an account of this surprising change which has been produced in me , and which I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as any recorded in hiftory , fince that which happened to the fon of Cræfus , after having been many years ...
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... give my reader a wrong idea of my defign in this paper , I muft here inform him , that the author of it is of no faction ; that he is a friend to no interests but those of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but those of vice and fol ...
... give my reader a wrong idea of my defign in this paper , I muft here inform him , that the author of it is of no faction ; that he is a friend to no interests but those of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but those of vice and fol ...
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... give over , for that he would have no fuch doings in his houfe . I had not been long in this nation , before I was told by one , for whom I had afked a certain favour from the chief of the king's fervants , whom they here call ' the ...
... give over , for that he would have no fuch doings in his houfe . I had not been long in this nation , before I was told by one , for whom I had afked a certain favour from the chief of the king's fervants , whom they here call ' the ...
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... give him back his colic ; but they were incapable either of them to recede from the choice they had made . A poor galley flave , who had thrown down his chains , took up the gout in their ftead , but made fuch wry faces , that one might ...
... give him back his colic ; but they were incapable either of them to recede from the choice they had made . A poor galley flave , who had thrown down his chains , took up the gout in their ftead , but made fuch wry faces , that one might ...
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... give every one his own again . They difcharged themfelves with a great deal of pleasure ; after which the Phantom , who had led them into fuch grofs delufions , was commanded to difappear . There was fent in her flead a goddess of a ...
... give every one his own again . They difcharged themfelves with a great deal of pleasure ; after which the Phantom , who had led them into fuch grofs delufions , was commanded to difappear . There was fent in her flead a goddess of a ...
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