The Spectator, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1924 |
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... Readers with two or three Letters I have received from my Correspond ents : The first discovers to me a Species of Females which have hitherto escaped my Notice , and is as follows , ' Mr. SPECTATOR , I am a young Gentleman of a ...
... Readers with two or three Letters I have received from my Correspond ents : The first discovers to me a Species of Females which have hitherto escaped my Notice , and is as follows , ' Mr. SPECTATOR , I am a young Gentleman of a ...
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... Reader as it was sent me , Exeter , Sept. 7 . ' Mr. SPECTATOR , You were pleased in a late Speculation to take Notice of the Inconvenience we lie under in the Country , in not being able to keep Pace with the Fashion ; but there is ...
... Reader as it was sent me , Exeter , Sept. 7 . ' Mr. SPECTATOR , You were pleased in a late Speculation to take Notice of the Inconvenience we lie under in the Country , in not being able to keep Pace with the Fashion ; but there is ...
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... Reader , with the same Emphasis as they are delivered by the Author , we needed not those Volumes of Instructions , but might be honest by an Epitome , ' This Passage in Scripture is indeed wonderfully per suasive , but I think the same ...
... Reader , with the same Emphasis as they are delivered by the Author , we needed not those Volumes of Instructions , but might be honest by an Epitome , ' This Passage in Scripture is indeed wonderfully per suasive , but I think the same ...
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... Reader , who takes up my Paper in order to be diverted , very often finds himself engaged unawares in a serious and profitable Course of thinking ; as on the contrary the Thoughtful Man , who perhaps may hope to find some thing Solid ...
... Reader , who takes up my Paper in order to be diverted , very often finds himself engaged unawares in a serious and profitable Course of thinking ; as on the contrary the Thoughtful Man , who perhaps may hope to find some thing Solid ...
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... Readers imagine ; did they know how many Thoughts occur in a point of Humour , which a discreet Author in Modesty suppresses ; how many Stroaks of Railery present themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary Taste of Mankind ...
... Readers imagine ; did they know how many Thoughts occur in a point of Humour , which a discreet Author in Modesty suppresses ; how many Stroaks of Railery present themselves , which could not fail to please the ordinary Taste of Mankind ...
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