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Why else should Melissa , who had not a Thousand Pound in the World , go into
every Quarter of the Town to ask her Acquaintance whether they would advise
her to take Tom Townly , that made his Addresses to her with an Estate of Five ...
Why else should Melissa , who had not a Thousand Pound in the World , go into
every Quarter of the Town to ask her Acquaintance whether they would advise
her to take Tom Townly , that made his Addresses to her with an Estate of Five ...
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He has a thousand pretty Fancies , and I am sure , if you saw him , you would like
him He is a very good Scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you
could but see him dance . Now you must understand poor Mr. Shapely has no ...
He has a thousand pretty Fancies , and I am sure , if you saw him , you would like
him He is a very good Scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you
could but see him dance . Now you must understand poor Mr. Shapely has no ...
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I , who hear a thousand Coffee house Debates every Day , am very sensible of
this Want of Method in the Thoughts of my honest Countrymen . There is not one
Dispute in ten which is managed in those Schools of Politicks , where , after the ...
I , who hear a thousand Coffee house Debates every Day , am very sensible of
this Want of Method in the Thoughts of my honest Countrymen . There is not one
Dispute in ten which is managed in those Schools of Politicks , where , after the ...
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By this Means , when a Stranger walks with me , he is surprized to see several
large Spots of Ground covered with ten thousand different Colours , and has
often singled out Flowers that he might have met with under a common Hedge ,
in a ...
By this Means , when a Stranger walks with me , he is surprized to see several
large Spots of Ground covered with ten thousand different Colours , and has
often singled out Flowers that he might have met with under a common Hedge ,
in a ...
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I love to see every Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my
Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs ,
springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of
Foreign ...
I love to see every Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my
Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs ,
springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of
Foreign ...
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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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