The Spectator, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1911 |
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... Publick will so far comply with your Inclinations , as to forbear celebrating such extraordinary Qualities . It is in vain that You have endeavoured to conceal your Share of Merit , in the many National Services which You have effected ...
... Publick will so far comply with your Inclinations , as to forbear celebrating such extraordinary Qualities . It is in vain that You have endeavoured to conceal your Share of Merit , in the many National Services which You have effected ...
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... publick has received from your Administration , would be a more proper Work for an History , than for an Address of this Nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your Private Life , as in the most Important Offices which You have born ...
... publick has received from your Administration , would be a more proper Work for an History , than for an Address of this Nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your Private Life , as in the most Important Offices which You have born ...
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... publick Exercises of the College , I scarce uttered the Quantity of an hundred Words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three Sentences together in my whole Life , Whilst I was in this Learned Body I applied myself with so ...
... publick Exercises of the College , I scarce uttered the Quantity of an hundred Words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three Sentences together in my whole Life , Whilst I was in this Learned Body I applied myself with so ...
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... Publick . They would indeed draw me out of that Obscurity which I have enjoyed for many Years , and expose me in Publick Places to several Salutes and Civilities , which have been always very disagreeable to me ; for the greatest Pain I ...
... Publick . They would indeed draw me out of that Obscurity which I have enjoyed for many Years , and expose me in Publick Places to several Salutes and Civilities , which have been always very disagreeable to me ; for the greatest Pain I ...
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... publick Coffee house for calling him Youngster . But being ill used by the above - mentioned Widow , he was very serious for a Year and a half ; and though , his Temper being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , he grew careless ...
... publick Coffee house for calling him Youngster . But being ill used by the above - mentioned Widow , he was very serious for a Year and a half ; and though , his Temper being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , he grew careless ...
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