The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 |
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Page 26
... lately got the ufe of your tongue , I have fome thoughts of following your example , that I may be a Fortune- teller , properly speaking . 1 am grown weary of my taciturnity , and having ferved my country many years under the title of ...
... lately got the ufe of your tongue , I have fome thoughts of following your example , that I may be a Fortune- teller , properly speaking . 1 am grown weary of my taciturnity , and having ferved my country many years under the title of ...
Page 64
... lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the mafter of the houfe accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into difcourfe with him ; and talking of a certain great man , who fhall be ...
... lately met with . I was the other day at a tavern , where the mafter of the houfe accommodating us himself with every thing we wanted , I accidentally fell into difcourfe with him ; and talking of a certain great man , who fhall be ...
Page 73
... lately dropt into a coffee - house at Weftminster , where I found the room hung round with orna- ments of this nature . There were elixirs , tinctures , the Anodyne Fotus , English pills , electuaries , and in fhort more remedies than I ...
... lately dropt into a coffee - house at Weftminster , where I found the room hung round with orna- ments of this nature . There were elixirs , tinctures , the Anodyne Fotus , English pills , electuaries , and in fhort more remedies than I ...
Page 94
... lately decried that cuftom , too much in ufe amongst most people , of making • themselves the fubjects of their writings and con verfation , that I had fome difficulty to perfuade myfelf to give you this trouble , until I had con ...
... lately decried that cuftom , too much in ufe amongst most people , of making • themselves the fubjects of their writings and con verfation , that I had fome difficulty to perfuade myfelf to give you this trouble , until I had con ...
Page 98
... lately gave to our kinfinan Blank ) do humbly pray that you will put an end to the con . troverfies which have been fo long depending be- tween us your faid petitioners , and that our en- mity may not endure from generation to genera ...
... lately gave to our kinfinan Blank ) do humbly pray that you will put an end to the con . troverfies which have been fo long depending be- tween us your faid petitioners , and that our en- mity may not endure from generation to genera ...
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