“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... common to fee men of fenfe commence coxcombs , than beautiful women become immodeft . When this happens in either , the fa- your we are naturally inclined to give to the good quali ties they have from nature should abate in proportion ...
... common to fee men of fenfe commence coxcombs , than beautiful women become immodeft . When this happens in either , the fa- your we are naturally inclined to give to the good quali ties they have from nature should abate in proportion ...
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... common - people of out grinning one another , that many very def erning per- fons are afraid it should spoil ntoft of the faces in the coun-- ty ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grinn , as Roman catholics imagine a ...
... common - people of out grinning one another , that many very def erning per- fons are afraid it should spoil ntoft of the faces in the coun-- ty ; and that a Warwickshire man will be known by his grinn , as Roman catholics imagine a ...
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... common peo- ples heads with fuch fenfelefs ambitions , and infpiring them . with fuch abfurd ideas of fuperiority and pre - eminence ,. has not in it fomething immoral as well as ridiculous . wod dm.py No. 1942 No 174 Wednesday ...
... common peo- ples heads with fuch fenfelefs ambitions , and infpiring them . with fuch abfurd ideas of fuperiority and pre - eminence ,. has not in it fomething immoral as well as ridiculous . wod dm.py No. 1942 No 174 Wednesday ...
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... common than ani mofities between parties that caunot fubfift but by their agreement : this was well reprefented in the fedition of the members of the human body in the old Ro- man fable . It is often the cafe of leffer confederate ...
... common than ani mofities between parties that caunot fubfift but by their agreement : this was well reprefented in the fedition of the members of the human body in the old Ro- man fable . It is often the cafe of leffer confederate ...
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... common honefty . NUMBERS are fo much the measure of every thing that is valuable , that it is not poffible to demonftrate the fuc cefs of any action , or the prudence of any undertaking without them . I fay this in answer to what Sir ...
... common honefty . NUMBERS are fo much the measure of every thing that is valuable , that it is not poffible to demonftrate the fuc cefs of any action , or the prudence of any undertaking without them . I fay this in answer to what Sir ...
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