The Spectator, Volume 3George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1897 |
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... pass over my Head , I would immediately change my Lodgings , but that I think it might look like a plain plain Confession that I am conquered ; and besides this , I am told that most Quarters of the Town are infested with these ...
... pass over my Head , I would immediately change my Lodgings , but that I think it might look like a plain plain Confession that I am conquered ; and besides this , I am told that most Quarters of the Town are infested with these ...
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... pass for an amiable Instinct , but must not assume the Name of a Moral Virtue . The third Tryal of Good - nature will be the examin ing our selves , whether or no we are able to exert it to our own Disadvantage , and employ it on proper ...
... pass for an amiable Instinct , but must not assume the Name of a Moral Virtue . The third Tryal of Good - nature will be the examin ing our selves , whether or no we are able to exert it to our own Disadvantage , and employ it on proper ...
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... pass his Evening in a Coffee - house , or at a Friend's Fireside , with much greater Satisfaction to him self than he could have received from the most ex quisite Entertainments of the Theatre . By these means he is generous without ...
... pass his Evening in a Coffee - house , or at a Friend's Fireside , with much greater Satisfaction to him self than he could have received from the most ex quisite Entertainments of the Theatre . By these means he is generous without ...
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... pass . Postcrípt . I am , Sir , & c . After having dispatched these two important Points of Grinning and Whistling , I hope you will oblige the World with some Reflections upon Yawning , as I have seen it practised on a Twelfth Night ...
... pass . Postcrípt . I am , Sir , & c . After having dispatched these two important Points of Grinning and Whistling , I hope you will oblige the World with some Reflections upon Yawning , as I have seen it practised on a Twelfth Night ...
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... pass over into Sicily , says Pyrrhus , and then all the Sicilians must be our Subjects . And what does your Majesty intend next ? Why truly , says the King , to conquer Carthage , and make my self Master of all Africa . And what , Sir ...
... pass over into Sicily , says Pyrrhus , and then all the Sicilians must be our Subjects . And what does your Majesty intend next ? Why truly , says the King , to conquer Carthage , and make my self Master of all Africa . And what , Sir ...
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