“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... either of thefe qualifications ( whatever may be the fecret ambition of his heart ) must never hope to make the figure you have done among the fafhionable fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no DEDICATION .
... either of thefe qualifications ( whatever may be the fecret ambition of his heart ) must never hope to make the figure you have done among the fafhionable fashionable part of his fpecies . It is therefore no DEDICATION .
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... MUST Own I conceived very extraordi nary hopes of you from the moment that you confeffed your age , and from eight and forty ( where you had ftuck fo many years ) very in- genuously stepped into your grand climacteric .. Your deportment ...
... MUST Own I conceived very extraordi nary hopes of you from the moment that you confeffed your age , and from eight and forty ( where you had ftuck fo many years ) very in- genuously stepped into your grand climacteric .. Your deportment ...
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AFTER having fpoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an au- thor in saying fomething of myself . I fhall therefore beg leave to add , that I have pur- pofely omitted fetting those marks to the end of every paper ...
AFTER having fpoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an au- thor in saying fomething of myself . I fhall therefore beg leave to add , that I have pur- pofely omitted fetting those marks to the end of every paper ...
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... may not give my reader a wrong idea of my design in this paper I must here inform him , that the author of it is of no faction , that he is a friend to no interefts interefts but thofe of truth and virtue , nor a N ° 556 . THE SPECTATOR .
... may not give my reader a wrong idea of my design in this paper I must here inform him , that the author of it is of no faction , that he is a friend to no interefts interefts but thofe of truth and virtue , nor a N ° 556 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... MUST not omit my own particular adventure . friend with the long vifage had no fooner taken upon him my short face , but he made fuch a grotefque figure in it , that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself , infomuch ...
... MUST not omit my own particular adventure . friend with the long vifage had no fooner taken upon him my short face , but he made fuch a grotefque figure in it , that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself , infomuch ...
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