The Spectator, Volume 3Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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... common people of out- grinning one another , that many very difcerning per- fons are afraid it fhould fpoil moft of the faces in the county ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grin , as Roman - Catholics imagine a Kentish ...
... common people of out- grinning one another , that many very difcerning per- fons are afraid it fhould fpoil moft of the faces in the county ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grin , as Roman - Catholics imagine a Kentish ...
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... common people's heads with fuch fenfelefs ambitions , and infpiring them with fuch abfurd ideas of fuperiority and pre - eminence , has not in it fomething immoral as well as ridiculous * . L * The foregoing Paper had fuch an effect ...
... common people's heads with fuch fenfelefs ambitions , and infpiring them with fuch abfurd ideas of fuperiority and pre - eminence , has not in it fomething immoral as well as ridiculous * . L * The foregoing Paper had fuch an effect ...
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neceffary for their common fafety : and this is always the cafe of the landed and trading intereft of Great- Britain : the trader is fed by the product of the land , and the landed man cannot be clothed but by the skill of the trader ...
neceffary for their common fafety : and this is always the cafe of the landed and trading intereft of Great- Britain : the trader is fed by the product of the land , and the landed man cannot be clothed but by the skill of the trader ...
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... common honesty . NUMBERS are fo much the measure of every thing that is valuable , that it is not poffible to demonstrate the fuccess of any action , or the prudence of any under- taking without them . I fay this in anfwer to what Sir ...
... common honesty . NUMBERS are fo much the measure of every thing that is valuable , that it is not poffible to demonstrate the fuccess of any action , or the prudence of any under- taking without them . I fay this in anfwer to what Sir ...
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... common practice with me to ask her fome queftion concerning the constitution , which the answers me in ⚫ general out of Harrington's OCEANA * . Then I com- ⚫ mend her ftrange memory , and her arm is immediately ⚫ locked in mine ...
... common practice with me to ask her fome queftion concerning the constitution , which the answers me in ⚫ general out of Harrington's OCEANA * . Then I com- ⚫ mend her ftrange memory , and her arm is immediately ⚫ locked in mine ...
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