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Page 6
His tenant's grow ' rich , his servants look satisfied , all the young women profess
love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a
house , he calls the fervants by their names , and talks all the way upftairs to a ...
His tenant's grow ' rich , his servants look satisfied , all the young women profess
love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a
house , he calls the fervants by their names , and talks all the way upftairs to a ...
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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 .
Page 21
... if we look into the writings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Virgil , we
shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing
themselves , resemble those authors much inore than the modern Italians
pretend to do .
... if we look into the writings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Virgil , we
shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing
themselves , resemble those authors much inore than the modern Italians
pretend to do .
Page 34
... met was something of the largest , and had two entrances ; the one by a door of
a moderate size , and the other by a pair of folding doors . If a candidate for this
corpulent club could make his entrance through the first , he was look'd upon as ...
... met was something of the largest , and had two entrances ; the one by a door of
a moderate size , and the other by a pair of folding doors . If a candidate for this
corpulent club could make his entrance through the first , he was look'd upon as ...
Page 38
My publisher teils me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed
every day ; so that if I allow twenty readers to every paper , which I look upon as a
modeft computation , I may reckon about threescore thousand disciples in ...
My publisher teils me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed
every day ; so that if I allow twenty readers to every paper , which I look upon as a
modeft computation , I may reckon about threescore thousand disciples in ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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