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Having inform'd you how I do pass my Time in the Country where I am , I must
proceed to tell you how I would pass it , had I such a Fortune as would put me
above the Observance of Ceremony and Custom My Scheme of a Country Life
then ...
Having inform'd you how I do pass my Time in the Country where I am , I must
proceed to tell you how I would pass it , had I such a Fortune as would put me
above the Observance of Ceremony and Custom My Scheme of a Country Life
then ...
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Now hearing you are a dumb Man too , I thought you might corre spond , and be
able to tell me something ; for I think my self highly oblig'd to make his Fortune as
he has mine , ' Tis very possible your Worship , who has Spies all over this ...
Now hearing you are a dumb Man too , I thought you might corre spond , and be
able to tell me something ; for I think my self highly oblig'd to make his Fortune as
he has mine , ' Tis very possible your Worship , who has Spies all over this ...
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... in these Occasions , and put them upon asking Advice , which they never
intend to take , I look upon it to be none of the least That they are incapable of
keeping a Secret which is so very pleasing to them . A Girl longs to tell her
Confident that ...
... in these Occasions , and put them upon asking Advice , which they never
intend to take , I look upon it to be none of the least That they are incapable of
keeping a Secret which is so very pleasing to them . A Girl longs to tell her
Confident that ...
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I forgot to tell you that he has black Eyes , and looks upon me now and then as if
he had Tears in them . And yet my Friends are so unreasonable , that they would
have me be uncivil to him . I have a good Portion which they cannot hinder me of
...
I forgot to tell you that he has black Eyes , and looks upon me now and then as if
he had Tears in them . And yet my Friends are so unreasonable , that they would
have me be uncivil to him . I have a good Portion which they cannot hinder me of
...
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I have known Tom eloquent Half an Hour together , and triumphing as he thought
, in the Superiority of the Argument , when he has been nonplus'd on a sudden by
Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell the Company what it was that he endeavoured to ...
I have known Tom eloquent Half an Hour together , and triumphing as he thought
, in the Superiority of the Argument , when he has been nonplus'd on a sudden by
Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell the Company what it was that he endeavoured to ...
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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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