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... to have a fondness for what has cost us much time and attention to produce , I
hope your Grace will forgive and endeavour to preserve this work from oblivion ,
by Vol . IV . A affixing affixing to it your memorable name . I shall not TO THE ...
... to have a fondness for what has cost us much time and attention to produce , I
hope your Grace will forgive and endeavour to preserve this work from oblivion ,
by Vol . IV . A affixing affixing to it your memorable name . I shall not TO THE ...
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I shall not here presume to mention the illustrious passages of your life , which
are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most fublime
pens ; but if I could convey you to pofterity in your private character , and describe
...
I shall not here presume to mention the illustrious passages of your life , which
are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most fublime
pens ; but if I could convey you to pofterity in your private character , and describe
...
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Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in
your story , , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ? How
pleasing would it be to hear that the same man , who had carried fire and ...
Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in
your story , , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ? How
pleasing would it be to hear that the same man , who had carried fire and ...
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... expiration of your command , by which your glory is put out of the power of
fortune : and when your person shall be so too , that the author and disposer of
all things may A 3 may place you in that higher manfion of bliss and
DEDICATION .
... expiration of your command , by which your glory is put out of the power of
fortune : and when your person shall be so too , that the author and disposer of
all things may A 3 may place you in that higher manfion of bliss and
DEDICATION .
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If you do me the honour to print this among your speculations , ' I shall in my next
make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next
assembly of la• dies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some future paper .
If you do me the honour to print this among your speculations , ' I shall in my next
make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next
assembly of la• dies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some future paper .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The British essayists The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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