The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... faid ten thoufand things , which it feems did not occur to you : do but reflect upon the nonfenfe it makes men talk , the flames which it is faid to kindle , the transport it raises , the dejection it caufes in the braveft men ; and if ...
... faid ten thoufand things , which it feems did not occur to you : do but reflect upon the nonfenfe it makes men talk , the flames which it is faid to kindle , the transport it raises , the dejection it caufes in the braveft men ; and if ...
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... faid on the ftage . A man may have an active body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of fuch as are , as I may fo fpeak , corporeal wits or nimble fellows , I would fain afk any of the prefent ...
... faid on the ftage . A man may have an active body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of fuch as are , as I may fo fpeak , corporeal wits or nimble fellows , I would fain afk any of the prefent ...
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... faid to have been the firft defign of thofe gentle- men who fet on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greateft ge- niufes of that age to the difquifitions of natural know- ledge , who ...
... faid to have been the firft defign of thofe gentle- men who fet on foot the Royal Society ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the greateft ge- niufes of that age to the difquifitions of natural know- ledge , who ...
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... faid before Mr. Letacre , that an old woman might live very well in the country < . -upon half my jointure , and that your father was a fond fool to give me a rent - charge of eight hundred à year to the prejudice of his fon . What ...
... faid before Mr. Letacre , that an old woman might live very well in the country < . -upon half my jointure , and that your father was a fond fool to give me a rent - charge of eight hundred à year to the prejudice of his fon . What ...
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... faid of him will be , that he got by every man who had expectations from him , more than he had to leave him . I have an inclination to print the following letters ; for that I have heard the author of them has fomewhere or other feen ...
... faid of him will be , that he got by every man who had expectations from him , more than he had to leave him . I have an inclination to print the following letters ; for that I have heard the author of them has fomewhere or other feen ...
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