The Spectator, Volume 3Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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Besides , jealousy puts a woman often in mind of an ill thing that she would not otherwise perhaps have thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites defire , and loses all the ...
Besides , jealousy puts a woman often in mind of an ill thing that she would not otherwise perhaps have thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites defire , and loses all the ...
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This paper might perhaps seem very impertinent , if it grew serious in the conclufion . I would nevertheless leave it to the consideration of those who are the patrons of first grin of this monstrous trial of skill , whether or no No ...
This paper might perhaps seem very impertinent , if it grew serious in the conclufion . I would nevertheless leave it to the consideration of those who are the patrons of first grin of this monstrous trial of skill , whether or no No ...
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An attention that perhaps would not have been paid to them now . In the 2d Vol . of “ Original Letters sent to the Spectator , & c . " afterwards published in 1725 , 8vo . is one from Coleilill to inform him what public deference had ...
An attention that perhaps would not have been paid to them now . In the 2d Vol . of “ Original Letters sent to the Spectator , & c . " afterwards published in 1725 , 8vo . is one from Coleilill to inform him what public deference had ...
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I am in very little pain for the Roman pro . verb upon the Carthaginian traders ; the Romans were their profeffed enemies : I am only forry no Carthaginian littories have come to our hands ; we might have been taught perhaps by them ...
I am in very little pain for the Roman pro . verb upon the Carthaginian traders ; the Romans were their profeffed enemies : I am only forry no Carthaginian littories have come to our hands ; we might have been taught perhaps by them ...
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I make it therefore my endeavour to find out entertain . ments of both kinds , and by that means perhaps consult the good of both , more than I fould do , did I always write to the particular taste of either .
I make it therefore my endeavour to find out entertain . ments of both kinds , and by that means perhaps consult the good of both , more than I fould do , did I always write to the particular taste of either .
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 3 The Spectator |
| Publisher | Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 |
| Original from | Ghent University |
| Digitized | 29 Jun 2009 |
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