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Page iii
... readers , and your- felf too , if I do not endeavour on this occafion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment you upon your birth , perfon , or fortune ; nor any other the like ...
... readers , and your- felf too , if I do not endeavour on this occafion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment you upon your birth , perfon , or fortune ; nor any other the like ...
Page vi
... have very judiciously erred in this particular , before they were let into the fecret . I am , SIR , Your moft faithful humble fervant , The SPECTATOR . THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER . IN N the fix vi DEDICATION . SIR, ...
... have very judiciously erred in this particular , before they were let into the fecret . I am , SIR , Your moft faithful humble fervant , The SPECTATOR . THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER . IN N the fix vi DEDICATION . SIR, ...
Page vii
THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER . IN N the fix hundred and thirty - fecond Spectator , the Reader will find an account of the rife of this eighth and laft volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the feveral gentlemen who were ...
THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER . IN N the fix hundred and thirty - fecond Spectator , the Reader will find an account of the rife of this eighth and laft volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the feveral gentlemen who were ...
Page 12
... 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 interefts but thofe of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but thofe of vice and folly . Though ...
... 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 interefts but thofe of truth and virtue , nor a foe to any but thofe of vice and folly . Though ...
Page 13
... reader to fufpend his cu- riofity , and rather to confider what is written than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all neceffary prelimina- ries with my reader , I fhall not trouble him with any more prefatory difcourfes ...
... reader to fufpend his cu- riofity , and rather to confider what is written than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all neceffary prelimina- ries with my reader , I fhall not trouble him with any more prefatory difcourfes ...
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