The Spectator, Volume 8J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... readers , and yourself too , if I do not endeavour on this occa- fion to make the world acquaint- ed with your virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment You upon your birth , person , or for- tune ; nor any other the like per ...
... readers , and yourself too , if I do not endeavour on this occa- fion to make the world acquaint- ed with your virtues . And here , Sir , I fhall not compliment You upon your birth , person , or for- tune ; nor any other the like per ...
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... reader will find an ac- count of the rife of this eighth and 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 ...
... reader will find an ac- count of the rife of this eighth and 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 ...
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... 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 but thofe of vice and folly ...
... 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 but thofe of vice and folly ...
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... reader to fufpend his curiosity , and rather to confider what is written , than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all neceffary preliminaries with my reader , I fhall not trouble him with any more pre- fatory difcourfes ...
... reader to fufpend his curiosity , and rather to confider what is written , than who they are that write it . Having thus adjusted all neceffary preliminaries with my reader , I fhall not trouble him with any more pre- fatory difcourfes ...
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... reader a fight of that up of those I mountain of miferies , which was made feveral calamities that afflict the minds of men . faw , with unfpeakable pleasure , the whole fpecies thus delivered from its forrows ; though at the fame time ...
... reader a fight of that up of those I mountain of miferies , which was made feveral calamities that afflict the minds of men . faw , with unfpeakable pleasure , the whole fpecies thus delivered from its forrows ; though at the fame time ...
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