“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Page 24
... received the following letter , or rather billet- doux , from a pert young baggage , who congratulates with me upon the fame occafion . C C · I ' Dear Mr PRATE - A - PACE , June 23. 1714 . Aм a member of a female fociety who call ...
... received the following letter , or rather billet- doux , from a pert young baggage , who congratulates with me upon the fame occafion . C C · I ' Dear Mr PRATE - A - PACE , June 23. 1714 . Aм a member of a female fociety who call ...
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As this particular paper fhall confift wholly of what I have received from my correfpondents , I thall fill up the remaining part of it with other congratulatory letters of the fame nature . € SIR , Oxford , June 25. 1714 . 7E are here ...
As this particular paper fhall confift wholly of what I have received from my correfpondents , I thall fill up the remaining part of it with other congratulatory letters of the fame nature . € SIR , Oxford , June 25. 1714 . 7E are here ...
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... receiving the addreffes of a gentle- man in the neighbourhood , who made love to her in the fecond month of her widowhood . This gentleman was • difcarded in a fortnight for the fake of a young templar , who had the poffeffion of her ...
... receiving the addreffes of a gentle- man in the neighbourhood , who made love to her in the fecond month of her widowhood . This gentleman was • difcarded in a fortnight for the fake of a young templar , who had the poffeffion of her ...
Page 39
... receiving a fingle wound . Whe- ther , fays Plutarch , he was the particular care of fome god , who rewarded his valour that day with an extraor- dinary protection , or that his enemies , ftruck with the , unufualnefs of his drefs , and ...
... receiving a fingle wound . Whe- ther , fays Plutarch , he was the particular care of fome god , who rewarded his valour that day with an extraor- dinary protection , or that his enemies , ftruck with the , unufualnefs of his drefs , and ...
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... received abundance of epiftles from gentlemen of the blade , who , I find , have been so used to action , that they know not how to lie ftill . They feem general- ly to be of opinion , that the fair at home ought to reward them for ...
... received abundance of epiftles from gentlemen of the blade , who , I find , have been so used to action , that they know not how to lie ftill . They feem general- ly to be of opinion , that the fair at home ought to reward them for ...
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