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When she has made her own Choice , for Form's Sake , she sends a Congé d'
élire to her Friends , If we look into the secret Springs and Motives that set People
at Work in these Occasions , and put them upon asking Advice , which they never
...
When she has made her own Choice , for Form's Sake , she sends a Congé d'
élire to her Friends , If we look into the secret Springs and Motives that set People
at Work in these Occasions , and put them upon asking Advice , which they never
...
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... Orchard and Flower Garden , which lie so mixt and interwoven with one
another , that if a Foreigner who had seen nothing of our Country should be
conveyed into my Garden at his first landing , he would look upon it as a natural
Wilderness ...
... Orchard and Flower Garden , which lie so mixt and interwoven with one
another , that if a Foreigner who had seen nothing of our Country should be
conveyed into my Garden at his first landing , he would look upon it as a natural
Wilderness ...
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You must know , Sir , that I look upon the Pleasure which we take in a Garden , as
one of the most innocent delights in humane Life . A Garden was the Habitation
of our first Parents before the Fall . It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with ...
You must know , Sir , that I look upon the Pleasure which we take in a Garden , as
one of the most innocent delights in humane Life . A Garden was the Habitation
of our first Parents before the Fall . It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with ...
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... o quotquot sunt , Veneres , Gratiae , Cupidines , Eo vobis adsunt in promptu
Faces , vincula , spicula , Hinc eligite , sumite , regíte . I am , Sir , Your most
humble Servant , A. B. ' The Proposal of my Correspondent I cannot but look
upon No.
... o quotquot sunt , Veneres , Gratiae , Cupidines , Eo vobis adsunt in promptu
Faces , vincula , spicula , Hinc eligite , sumite , regíte . I am , Sir , Your most
humble Servant , A. B. ' The Proposal of my Correspondent I cannot but look
upon No.
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I was called upon , by Looks upon the Child , and then at me , to say something ,
and I told the Father , that this Remark of the Infant of his coming home , and
joining the Time with it , was a certain Indication that he would be a great
Historian ...
I was called upon , by Looks upon the Child , and then at me , to say something ,
and I told the Father , that this Remark of the Infant of his coming home , and
joining the Time with it , was a certain Indication that he would be a great
Historian ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Essays [no. 164-167] The Spectator, George Gregory Smith |
| Contributor | George Gregory Smith |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1913 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2014 |
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