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Page 45
The court has in all ages been allowed • to be the standard of good breeding ;
and I believe there * is not a juster observation in Monsieur Rochefoucault , • than
that • a man who has been bred up wholly to business , can never get the air of a
...
The court has in all ages been allowed • to be the standard of good breeding ;
and I believe there * is not a juster observation in Monsieur Rochefoucault , • than
that • a man who has been bred up wholly to business , can never get the air of a
...
Page 82
It was not long before I was observed by some of • the family in one of these
heroic fits , who thereupon received impressions very much to my disadvantage .
This • however I did not soon discover , nor should have done • probably , had it
not ...
It was not long before I was observed by some of • the family in one of these
heroic fits , who thereupon received impressions very much to my disadvantage .
This • however I did not soon discover , nor should have done • probably , had it
not ...
Page 130
IH HAVE ju t received a letter from a gentleman , who tells me he has observed ,
with no small concern , that my papers have of lute been very barren in relation to
love ; a subject which , when agreeably handled , can scarce fail of being will ...
IH HAVE ju t received a letter from a gentleman , who tells me he has observed ,
with no small concern , that my papers have of lute been very barren in relation to
love ; a subject which , when agreeably handled , can scarce fail of being will ...
Page 218
6 I SHALL add an observation or two to the remarks of my ingenious
correspondent , and ... accession to the throne ; wherein , amongst many other
noble and beautiful strokes of poetry , his reader may see this rule very happily
observed .
6 I SHALL add an observation or two to the remarks of my ingenious
correspondent , and ... accession to the throne ; wherein , amongst many other
noble and beautiful strokes of poetry , his reader may see this rule very happily
observed .
Page 232
She at first made some difficulty of taking r the tail in her hand ; and was observed
in pronouncing * the form of pennance , to soften the two most emphatical • words
into Clincum Clancum : but the stoward took care to make her speak plain ...
She at first made some difficulty of taking r the tail in her hand ; and was observed
in pronouncing * the form of pennance , to soften the two most emphatical • words
into Clincum Clancum : but the stoward took care to make her speak plain ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | “The” Spectator ... Volume 8 of “The” Spectator |
| Publisher | J. Wood, 1761 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2019 |
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