“The” Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff , Esq, Volume 4G. Risk, G. and A. Ewing, and W. Smith, Booksellers in Damestreet, 1751 |
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... moft valuable Bleff- ings , when a Man is permitted to share in your Lordship's Converfations in the Country . All the bright Images which the Wits of paft Ages have left behind them in their Writings , the no- ble Plans which the ...
... moft valuable Bleff- ings , when a Man is permitted to share in your Lordship's Converfations in the Country . All the bright Images which the Wits of paft Ages have left behind them in their Writings , the no- ble Plans which the ...
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... Moft Obliged , and Moft Devoted Servant , Richard Steele . THE PREFA CE . I N the last Tatler I vi The DEDICATION .
... Moft Obliged , and Moft Devoted Servant , Richard Steele . THE PREFA CE . I N the last Tatler I vi The DEDICATION .
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... moft pitiful and contemptible of all Paffions ; and fuch a Time certainly is when the ' true publick Spirit of a Nation is run into a Faction against their Friends and Benefactors . I have hinted heretofore fome Things which discover ...
... moft pitiful and contemptible of all Paffions ; and fuch a Time certainly is when the ' true publick Spirit of a Nation is run into a Faction against their Friends and Benefactors . I have hinted heretofore fome Things which discover ...
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... moft Faithful Servant , till Death , I. B. THERE is nothing fo dangerous or fo pleafing , as Compliments made to us by our Enemies : And my Correspondent tells me , That though he knows feveral of those who give him this Counsel were at ...
... moft Faithful Servant , till Death , I. B. THERE is nothing fo dangerous or fo pleafing , as Compliments made to us by our Enemies : And my Correspondent tells me , That though he knows feveral of those who give him this Counsel were at ...
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... moft cunning of all Men , and fears the Imputation of the want of Under- ftanding much more than that of the Abuse of it . But alas ! How contemptible is such an Ambition , which is the very Reverse of all that is truly laudable , and ...
... moft cunning of all Men , and fears the Imputation of the want of Under- ftanding much more than that of the Abuse of it . But alas ! How contemptible is such an Ambition , which is the very Reverse of all that is truly laudable , and ...
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