Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... late biographer has conjectured , a complete set of De Foe's Reviews is no longer in existence . Such were the abortive attempts at periodical composition before Steele had planned his admir- * Vide Life of De Foe by Chalmers , p . 21 ...
... late biographer has conjectured , a complete set of De Foe's Reviews is no longer in existence . Such were the abortive attempts at periodical composition before Steele had planned his admir- * Vide Life of De Foe by Chalmers , p . 21 ...
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... late practitioner in physic and astrology ; I got not one wink of sleep that night , nor scarce a moment's rest ever since . Now I doubt not but this villanous squire has the impudence to assert that these are entirely strangers to him ...
... late practitioner in physic and astrology ; I got not one wink of sleep that night , nor scarce a moment's rest ever since . Now I doubt not but this villanous squire has the impudence to assert that these are entirely strangers to him ...
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... late ingenious Mr. John Part- trige , an eminent practitioner in leather , physic , and astrology . " But to shew how far the wicked spirit of envy , malice , and resentment , can hurry some men , my nameless old persecutor had provided ...
... late ingenious Mr. John Part- trige , an eminent practitioner in leather , physic , and astrology . " But to shew how far the wicked spirit of envy , malice , and resentment , can hurry some men , my nameless old persecutor had provided ...
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... the sum of 1007 ; and upwards of 40,000 copies , it is said , were soon sold . General Biographical Dictionary , Vol . ii . p . 182. ed . 1784 . deavoured to persuade the late king to give way to BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE . 91.
... the sum of 1007 ; and upwards of 40,000 copies , it is said , were soon sold . General Biographical Dictionary , Vol . ii . p . 182. ed . 1784 . deavoured to persuade the late king to give way to BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE . 91.
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... late king to give way to just such another attempt . He told his ma- jesty , there was a certain clergyman , who preach- ed very dangerous sermons , and that the only way to put a stop to such insolence was , to impeach him in ...
... late king to give way to just such another attempt . He told his ma- jesty , there was a certain clergyman , who preach- ed very dangerous sermons , and that the only way to put a stop to such insolence was , to impeach him in ...
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