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... writing . Be that as it will , the blind Tirefias was not more famous in Greece , than this dumb artift has been for fome years laft paft , in the cities of London and Westminster . Thus much for the profound gentleman who honours me ...
... writing . Be that as it will , the blind Tirefias was not more famous in Greece , than this dumb artift has been for fome years laft paft , in the cities of London and Westminster . Thus much for the profound gentleman who honours me ...
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... writing , that I might avoid the tedioufnefs and trouble of debates , my querifts being generally of a humour to think , that they have never predic- ⚫tions enough for their money . In fhort , Sir , my cafe has been fomething like that ...
... writing , that I might avoid the tedioufnefs and trouble of debates , my querifts being generally of a humour to think , that they have never predic- ⚫tions enough for their money . In fhort , Sir , my cafe has been fomething like that ...
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... vanity . An oftentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an abfurdity he has committed , than be debarred of talking of his own dear perfon . B 6 Some Some very great writers have been guilty of this fault N ° 562 35 THE SPECTATOR .
... vanity . An oftentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an abfurdity he has committed , than be debarred of talking of his own dear perfon . B 6 Some Some very great writers have been guilty of this fault N ° 562 35 THE SPECTATOR .
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Some very great writers have been guilty of this fault . It is obferved of Tully in particular , that his works run very ... writing with the name of an egotism ; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians , The most violent ...
Some very great writers have been guilty of this fault . It is obferved of Tully in particular , that his works run very ... writing with the name of an egotism ; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians , The most violent ...
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... writer never to fpeak of himself , un- lefs there be fomething very confiderable in his charac- ter : though I am ... writer has taken notice of them ; I mean thofe writer No 562 37 THE SPECTATOR . meet with more upon Monfieur Montaigne ...
... writer never to fpeak of himself , un- lefs there be fomething very confiderable in his charac- ter : though I am ... writer has taken notice of them ; I mean thofe writer No 562 37 THE SPECTATOR . meet with more upon Monfieur Montaigne ...
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