“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... things go on as they do , ftand fair for being a colonel of the militia . I am told that your time paffes away , as agreeably in the amusements of a country life , as it e-- ver did in the gallantries of the town and that you now take ...
... things go on as they do , ftand fair for being a colonel of the militia . I am told that your time paffes away , as agreeably in the amusements of a country life , as it e-- ver did in the gallantries of the town and that you now take ...
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... thing , and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falfehood politenefs . Upon " my firft landing , one who was fent from the king of this place to meet me , told me , That he was extremely forry for the form I had met with just ...
... thing , and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falfehood politenefs . Upon " my firft landing , one who was fent from the king of this place to meet me , told me , That he was extremely forry for the form I had met with just ...
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... thing with this people , fince there is fo little credit to be given to them . When I go to fee the king's fcribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though perhaps I faw him go into his house almoft the very moment before ...
... thing with this people , fince there is fo little credit to be given to them . When I go to fee the king's fcribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though perhaps I faw him go into his house almoft the very moment before ...
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... thing of her former figure . To celebrate the generofity , or any o- ther virtue , of a deceased hufband , which the would re- commend to his fucceffor . To turn away all his old friends and fervants , that he may have the dear man to ...
... thing of her former figure . To celebrate the generofity , or any o- ther virtue , of a deceased hufband , which the would re- commend to his fucceffor . To turn away all his old friends and fervants , that he may have the dear man to ...
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... thing of difparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . ' Let the tenor of his difcourfe be what it will upon this fubject , it general- ly proceeds from vanity . An oftentatious man will rather relate a ...
... thing of difparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . ' Let the tenor of his difcourfe be what it will upon this fubject , it general- ly proceeds from vanity . An oftentatious man will rather relate a ...
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