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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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He has got about half a Dozen commonplace Topicks , into which he never fails
to turn the Con versation , whatever was the Occasion of it . Tho ' the Matter in
Debate be about Doway or Denain , it is ten to one but half his Discourse runs
upon ...
He has got about half a Dozen commonplace Topicks , into which he never fails
to turn the Con versation , whatever was the Occasion of it . Tho ' the Matter in
Debate be about Doway or Denain , it is ten to one but half his Discourse runs
upon ...
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I never yet met with any one who had walked in this Garden , who was not struck
with that part of it which I have here mentioned . As for my self , you will find , by
the Account which I have already given you , that my Compositions in Gardening
...
I never yet met with any one who had walked in this Garden , who was not struck
with that part of it which I have here mentioned . As for my self , you will find , by
the Account which I have already given you , that my Compositions in Gardening
...
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Uncommon Methods , apparently undertaken to attain worthy Ends , would never
make Power invidious . You see , Sir , I talk to you with the Freedom your noble
Nature approves in all whom you admit to your Conversation But , to return to ...
Uncommon Methods , apparently undertaken to attain worthy Ends , would never
make Power invidious . You see , Sir , I talk to you with the Freedom your noble
Nature approves in all whom you admit to your Conversation But , to return to ...
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He was never suffered to go abroad for Fear of catching Cold ; when he should
have been hunting down a Buck , he was by his Mother's Side learning how to
season it , or put it in Crust ; and was making Paper Boats with his Sisters , at an ...
He was never suffered to go abroad for Fear of catching Cold ; when he should
have been hunting down a Buck , he was by his Mother's Side learning how to
season it , or put it in Crust ; and was making Paper Boats with his Sisters , at an ...
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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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