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... which the audience may look upon without catching cold , and indeed , without
much danger of being burnt ; for there are several engines filled with water , and
ready to play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen .
... which the audience may look upon without catching cold , and indeed , without
much danger of being burnt ; for there are several engines filled with water , and
ready to play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen .
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... them out of the favour of the people , and consequently out of the magistracy .
These factions tore the corporation in pieces for several years , till at length they
came to . TO * to this accommodation : That the two 34 THE SPECTATOR . No. IX
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... them out of the favour of the people , and consequently out of the magistracy .
These factions tore the corporation in pieces for several years , till at length they
came to . TO * to this accommodation : That the two 34 THE SPECTATOR . No. IX
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I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church - yard , the cloisters , and the
church , amusing myself with the tomb - stones and inscriptions that I met with in
those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the ...
I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church - yard , the cloisters , and the
church , amusing myself with the tomb - stones and inscriptions that I met with in
those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the ...
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6 6 Sir , OBSERVING that you have thoughts of creating certain officers under
you , for the inspection o of several petty enormities which you yourself can . not
attend to ; and finding daily ablurdities hung out upon the sign - posts of this city ,
to ...
6 6 Sir , OBSERVING that you have thoughts of creating certain officers under
you , for the inspection o of several petty enormities which you yourself can . not
attend to ; and finding daily ablurdities hung out upon the sign - posts of this city ,
to ...
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Mr. Bell has likewise distinguished himíelf by a device of the • same nature : and
here , Sir , I must beg leave to ob• serve to you , that this particular figure of a bell
has • given occasion to several pieces of wit in this kind . • A man of your reading
...
Mr. Bell has likewise distinguished himíelf by a device of the • same nature : and
here , Sir , I must beg leave to ob• serve to you , that this particular figure of a bell
has • given occasion to several pieces of wit in this kind . • A man of your reading
...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 1 The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Author | Joseph Addison |
| Published | 1793 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2012 |
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