The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Page 19
... set of women who are got into the common - place raillery of every thing that is fober , decent , and proper : ma- trimony and the clergy are the topics of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ⚫ learned of ...
... set of women who are got into the common - place raillery of every thing that is fober , decent , and proper : ma- trimony and the clergy are the topics of people of little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ⚫ learned of ...
Page 164
... set before him a fack of wheat , as it had been just threshed out of the fheaf . He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn , and lay it afide by itself . The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and ...
... set before him a fack of wheat , as it had been just threshed out of the fheaf . He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn , and lay it afide by itself . The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and ...
Page 247
... with her . The grounds of our difference was this ; that when we had inquired into each other's circumftances , we found that at our first set- L 4 ting · < ting out into the world , we fhould No 3г0 THE SPECTATOR . 247.
... with her . The grounds of our difference was this ; that when we had inquired into each other's circumftances , we found that at our first set- L 4 ting · < ting out into the world , we fhould No 3г0 THE SPECTATOR . 247.
Page 248
... set up for negligence of men , are forfooth the moft rigidly virtuous in the world , and yet their nicety will permit ⚫ them at the command of parents to go to bed to the most utter ftranger that can be propofed to them . As to me my ...
... set up for negligence of men , are forfooth the moft rigidly virtuous in the world , and yet their nicety will permit ⚫ them at the command of parents to go to bed to the most utter ftranger that can be propofed to them . As to me my ...
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