The Spectator, Volume 7J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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Page 11
... conversations I have defcribed , who for their own private , as also the public emolument , fhould exclude , and be ... conversation of all others I ⚫ have met with in the neighbourhood , has been among two or three of your travellers ...
... conversations I have defcribed , who for their own private , as also the public emolument , fhould exclude , and be ... conversation of all others I ⚫ have met with in the neighbourhood , has been among two or three of your travellers ...
Page 91
... conversation and fortune , through the feveral periods of it . Hence they were difpofed eafily to excufe thofe exceffes which might poffibly arife from a too eager purfuit of the affections more immediately proper to each state : They ...
... conversation and fortune , through the feveral periods of it . Hence they were difpofed eafily to excufe thofe exceffes which might poffibly arife from a too eager purfuit of the affections more immediately proper to each state : They ...
Page 132
... conversation is so infected with them , that a party - lye is grown as fashionable an entertainment as a lively catch or a merry ftory : The truth of it is , half the great talkers in the nation would be ftruck dumb , were 133 this ...
... conversation is so infected with them , that a party - lye is grown as fashionable an entertainment as a lively catch or a merry ftory : The truth of it is , half the great talkers in the nation would be ftruck dumb , were 133 this ...
Page 238
... fire if he would his paper , and fo a conversation enfued fit for fuch perfons . This story preft fo hard upon the young captains , " % * · · 6 · 6 toge < ड together with the concurrence of their fuperior of- 238 N ° 533 THE SPECTATOR .
... fire if he would his paper , and fo a conversation enfued fit for fuch perfons . This story preft fo hard upon the young captains , " % * · · 6 · 6 toge < ड together with the concurrence of their fuperior of- 238 N ° 533 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 257
... conversation of this nature , began then to ingrofs the fubject . One had fweated at the fight of it , another had fmelled it out as it lay con- cealed in a very diftant cupboard ; and he who crowned the whole fet of thefe ftories ...
... conversation of this nature , began then to ingrofs the fubject . One had fweated at the fight of it , another had fmelled it out as it lay con- cealed in a very diftant cupboard ; and he who crowned the whole fet of thefe ftories ...
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