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... (received from you in a private capacity) which I have no other way to acknowledge, will, I hope, excuse this presumption 3 but the justice I, as'a Spectator, owe your character, places me above the want of an excuse. Candour and ...
... (received from you in a private capacity) which I have no other way to acknowledge, will, I hope, excuse this presumption 3 but the justice I, as'a Spectator, owe your character, places me above the want of an excuse. Candour and ...
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... received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But , though I hope for the best , I fhall not pro- nounce too pofitively on this point , till I have feen forty weeks well over , at which period of time , as ...
... received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But , though I hope for the best , I fhall not pro- nounce too pofitively on this point , till I have feen forty weeks well over , at which period of time , as ...
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Neither muft I forget a letter which I received near a fortnight fince from a lady , who , it feems , could hold out no longer , telling me fhe looked upon the month as then out , for that he had all along reckoned by the new style . On ...
Neither muft I forget a letter which I received near a fortnight fince from a lady , who , it feems , could hold out no longer , telling me fhe looked upon the month as then out , for that he had all along reckoned by the new style . On ...
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... received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . I have kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at firft what to make of it , upon my reading it over very frequent- ly , I ...
... received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . I have kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at firft what to make of it , upon my reading it over very frequent- ly , I ...
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... received this meffage by him , than I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if , as you fay , confefling a truth indeed may procure my fafety , I fhall with all wil- lingness and duty perform your command . " ( C < But let not your Grace ...
... received this meffage by him , than I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if , as you fay , confefling a truth indeed may procure my fafety , I fhall with all wil- lingness and duty perform your command . " ( C < But let not your Grace ...
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