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... last to you , as to a gentleman who has ever been ambiti ous of appearing in the best company . You are now wholly retired from the bufy part of mankind , and at leifure to reflect up- on your past achievements ; for which reafon I look ...
... last to you , as to a gentleman who has ever been ambiti ous of appearing in the best company . You are now wholly retired from the bufy part of mankind , and at leifure to reflect up- on your past achievements ; for which reafon I look ...
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... last allufion may not 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 ...
... last allufion may not 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 ...
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... last husband . Her weeds have ferved her thrice , and as new . are still as good She was a wi- V. Lady Katharine Swallow . dow at eighteen , and has fince buried a fecond hufband and two coachmen . VI . The Lady Waddle . She was married ...
... last husband . Her weeds have ferved her thrice , and as new . are still as good She was a wi- V. Lady Katharine Swallow . dow at eighteen , and has fince buried a fecond hufband and two coachmen . VI . The Lady Waddle . She was married ...
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... last SPECTATOR , and cafting my eye over it , The SPECTATOR , fays I , is very witty to - day ; upon which a lufty lethargic old gentleman , who fat at the upper end of the ta- ble , having gradually blown out of his mouth a great deal ...
... last SPECTATOR , and cafting my eye over it , The SPECTATOR , fays I , is very witty to - day ; upon which a lufty lethargic old gentleman , who fat at the upper end of the ta- ble , having gradually blown out of his mouth a great deal ...
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... last twenty years of his life , which , according to his computa- tion , amounted to twenty - three hogfheads of Octo- ber , four tons of port , half a kilderkin of small beer , nineteen barrels of cyder , and three glaffes of cham ...
... last twenty years of his life , which , according to his computa- tion , amounted to twenty - three hogfheads of Octo- ber , four tons of port , half a kilderkin of small beer , nineteen barrels of cyder , and three glaffes of cham ...
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