The Spectator, Volume 8J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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Page 11
... last volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were con- cerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unneceffary to in- form the reader , that no other papers ...
... last volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen who were con- cerned in this work to let me acquaint the world with their names . Perhaps it will be unneceffary to in- form the reader , that no other papers ...
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... last allufion may not give my reader a wrong idea of my defign in this paper , I muft here in- form him , that the author of it is of no faction , that he is a friend to no interefts but those of truth and vir- tue , nor a foe to any ...
... last allufion may not give my reader a wrong idea of my defign in this paper , I muft here in- form him , that the author of it is of no faction , that he is a friend to no interefts but those of truth and vir- tue , nor a foe to any ...
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... last distributed among the two fexes , who made a moft pitious fight , as they wandered up and down under the preffure of their feveral burdens . The whole plain was filled with murmurs and com- plaints , groans and lamentations ...
... last distributed among the two fexes , who made a moft pitious fight , as they wandered up and down under the preffure of their feveral burdens . The whole plain was filled with murmurs and com- plaints , groans and lamentations ...
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... last age , ' who lying violently afflicted with the gout , a perfon came and offered his fervice to cure him by a method which he affured him was infallible ; the fervant who received the meffage carried it up to his mafter , who ...
... last age , ' who lying violently afflicted with the gout , a perfon came and offered his fervice to cure him by a method which he affured him was infallible ; the fervant who received the meffage carried it up to his mafter , who ...
Page 85
... last so very long . But when the choice we actually have before us is this , whether we will choose to be happy for the fpace of only threefcore and ten , nay , perhaps of only twenty or ten years , I might fay of only a day or an hour ...
... last so very long . But when the choice we actually have before us is this , whether we will choose to be happy for the fpace of only threefcore and ten , nay , perhaps of only twenty or ten years , I might fay of only a day or an hour ...
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