The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... received great inftances of your favour , I fhould have been afraid of fubmitting a work of this nature to your perufal . You are fo thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is ...
... received great inftances of your favour , I fhould have been afraid of fubmitting a work of this nature to your perufal . You are fo thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is ...
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... received it from the hand of my fair correfpondent . · Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , YOU OU having fet your readers an exercife in one of your last week's papers , I have performed mine according to your orders , and herewith fend it you ...
... received it from the hand of my fair correfpondent . · Dear Mr. SPECTATOR , YOU OU having fet your readers an exercife in one of your last week's papers , I have performed mine according to your orders , and herewith fend it you ...
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... Received a Mem . Locked it up in my strong Reft of the morning . Fontange , the tire - woman , her account of my lady_Blithe's wash . Broke a tooth in my little tortoife - fhell comb . Sent Frank to know how my lady Heick refted after ...
... Received a Mem . Locked it up in my strong Reft of the morning . Fontange , the tire - woman , her account of my lady_Blithe's wash . Broke a tooth in my little tortoife - fhell comb . Sent Frank to know how my lady Heick refted after ...
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... received the day before . SIR , I Have read your laft Saturday's obfervations on the fourth book of Milton with great fatisfaction , and am particularly pleased with the hidden moral ⚫ which you have taken notice of in feveral parts of ...
... received the day before . SIR , I Have read your laft Saturday's obfervations on the fourth book of Milton with great fatisfaction , and am particularly pleased with the hidden moral ⚫ which you have taken notice of in feveral parts of ...
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... received instructions to converfe with zaam , as one friend converfes with another , and to warn him of the enemy , who was contriving his deftruction : Accordingly he is reprefented as fitting down at table with Adam , and eating of ...
... received instructions to converfe with zaam , as one friend converfes with another , and to warn him of the enemy , who was contriving his deftruction : Accordingly he is reprefented as fitting down at table with Adam , and eating of ...
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