The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 209
... conversation is only a perfon of so pregnant a fancy , that he cannot be contented with or- dinary occurrences . I know a man of quality of our order who is of the wrong fide of forty - three , and has been of that age , ' according to ...
... conversation is only a perfon of so pregnant a fancy , that he cannot be contented with or- dinary occurrences . I know a man of quality of our order who is of the wrong fide of forty - three , and has been of that age , ' according to ...
Page 223
... conversations over wine , when men go to the bottle to remove fuch humours as it only firs up and awakens . This I could not attribute more to any thing than to the humour of putting com- pany upon others which men do not like ...
... conversations over wine , when men go to the bottle to remove fuch humours as it only firs up and awakens . This I could not attribute more to any thing than to the humour of putting com- pany upon others which men do not like ...
Page 253
... conversation , with faying aloud , Do not you think fo ? Then whisper again , and then aloud , but you know that perfon ; then whifper again . The thing would be well enough , if they whifper'd to keep the folly of what they fay among ...
... conversation , with faying aloud , Do not you think fo ? Then whisper again , and then aloud , but you know that perfon ; then whifper again . The thing would be well enough , if they whifper'd to keep the folly of what they fay among ...
Page 277
... conversation on one part is involuntary , and the effect of fome neceffary circumstances . This happens in travelling to- gether in the fame hired coach , fitting near each other in any publick affembly , or the like . I have , upon ...
... conversation on one part is involuntary , and the effect of fome neceffary circumstances . This happens in travelling to- gether in the fame hired coach , fitting near each other in any publick affembly , or the like . I have , upon ...
Page 279
... conversations , it is not to be doubted but that their discourses will raise the ufual ftile of buy- ing and felling . Inftead of the plain downright lying , and asking and bidding fo unequally to what they will really give and take ...
... conversations , it is not to be doubted but that their discourses will raise the ufual ftile of buy- ing and felling . Inftead of the plain downright lying , and asking and bidding fo unequally to what they will really give and take ...
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