“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... present troubles , which you are the more obliged to affift me in , as you were yourself in a great meafure the cause of them , by recommending to us an inftrument , and not inftructing us at the fame time how to play upon it . • ' I ...
... present troubles , which you are the more obliged to affift me in , as you were yourself in a great meafure the cause of them , by recommending to us an inftrument , and not inftructing us at the fame time how to play upon it . • ' I ...
Page 42
... how many strokes of rallery present themfelves , which could not fail to pleafe the ordinary taste of mankind , but are ftiffed in their birth by by reason of fome remote tendency which they carry then 42 N ° 179 . THE SPECTATOR .
... how many strokes of rallery present themfelves , which could not fail to pleafe the ordinary taste of mankind , but are ftiffed in their birth by by reason of fome remote tendency which they carry then 42 N ° 179 . THE SPECTATOR .
Page 57
... present suggest to me , be- fore I prefent my reader with a fable of this kind , which I defign as the entertainment of the prefent paper , I must in a few words open the occafion of it . In the account which Plato gives us of the ...
... present suggest to me , be- fore I prefent my reader with a fable of this kind , which I defign as the entertainment of the prefent paper , I must in a few words open the occafion of it . In the account which Plato gives us of the ...
Page 116
... present thoughts upon political arith- metic , an art of greater ufe than entertainment . My friend has offered an effay towards proving that Lewis XIV ... with all his acquifitions , is not mafter of more people than , at the beginning ...
... present thoughts upon political arith- metic , an art of greater ufe than entertainment . My friend has offered an effay towards proving that Lewis XIV ... with all his acquifitions , is not mafter of more people than , at the beginning ...
Page 119
... present buildings are fufficient for all the inhabitants , if any of them should forfake the old to inhabit the new part of the ifland , the increase of houfe - rent in this would be attended with at leaft an equal decrease of it in the ...
... present buildings are fufficient for all the inhabitants , if any of them should forfake the old to inhabit the new part of the ifland , the increase of houfe - rent in this would be attended with at leaft an equal decrease of it in the ...
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