The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... mean time the fon continued his application to me , and omitted no occafion of demonftrating the most difinterested paffion imaginable to me ; and in plain direct terms offer'd to marry me privately , and keep it fo till he fhould be fo ...
... mean time the fon continued his application to me , and omitted no occafion of demonftrating the most difinterested paffion imaginable to me ; and in plain direct terms offer'd to marry me privately , and keep it fo till he fhould be fo ...
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... means to bring me through neceffity , to refign my pretenfions to him for fome provifion for my life but I will die first . Pray bid him remember what he said , and how he was • charmed when he laughed at the heedie's discovery I ...
... means to bring me through neceffity , to refign my pretenfions to him for fome provifion for my life but I will die first . Pray bid him remember what he said , and how he was • charmed when he laughed at the heedie's discovery I ...
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... mean time my request to you is , that if there be any way to come at these wild unaccountable rovings of imagination by reafon and argument , you'd fpeedily afford us your affiftance . This exceeds the grievance of pin - money , and I ...
... mean time my request to you is , that if there be any way to come at these wild unaccountable rovings of imagination by reafon and argument , you'd fpeedily afford us your affiftance . This exceeds the grievance of pin - money , and I ...
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... mean , is the patronage of young modeft men to fuch as are able to countenance and introduce them into the world . For want of fuch affiftances , a youth of merit languishes in obfcurity or poverty , when his circumftances are low , and ...
... mean , is the patronage of young modeft men to fuch as are able to countenance and introduce them into the world . For want of fuch affiftances , a youth of merit languishes in obfcurity or poverty , when his circumftances are low , and ...
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... means have ftarved his beard . I have read fomewhere that one of the popes refus❜d to accept an edition of a faint's works , which were pre- fented to him , because the faint , in his effigies before the book , was drawn without a ...
... means have ftarved his beard . I have read fomewhere that one of the popes refus❜d to accept an edition of a faint's works , which were pre- fented to him , because the faint , in his effigies before the book , was drawn without a ...
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