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I heard a great deal more of this Conference , but I must confess with little
Edification ; for all I could learn at last from these honest Gentlemen was , that the
Matter in Debate was of too high a Nature for such Heads as theirs , or mine , to ...
I heard a great deal more of this Conference , but I must confess with little
Edification ; for all I could learn at last from these honest Gentlemen was , that the
Matter in Debate was of too high a Nature for such Heads as theirs , or mine , to ...
Page 50
He would sit in his Night - Gown and Slippers , and be as grave giving an
Account , only changing Names , that there was nothing in these idle Reports
they had heard of such a Scoundrel Scoundrel as one of the other Lovers was ;
and 50 ...
He would sit in his Night - Gown and Slippers , and be as grave giving an
Account , only changing Names , that there was nothing in these idle Reports
they had heard of such a Scoundrel Scoundrel as one of the other Lovers was ;
and 50 ...
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... as a Salver of Sweetmeats , I shall conclude this paper with an Epigram lately
sent to the Writer of the Spectator , after having returned my Thanks to the
ingenious Author of it Sir , Having heard the following Epigram very much con
mended ...
... as a Salver of Sweetmeats , I shall conclude this paper with an Epigram lately
sent to the Writer of the Spectator , after having returned my Thanks to the
ingenious Author of it Sir , Having heard the following Epigram very much con
mended ...
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Justice is the first Quality in the Man who is in a Post of Direction ; and I
remember to have heard an old Gentleman talk of the Civil - wars , and in his
Relation give an Account of a general Officer , who with this one Quality , without
any shining ...
Justice is the first Quality in the Man who is in a Post of Direction ; and I
remember to have heard an old Gentleman talk of the Civil - wars , and in his
Relation give an Account of a general Officer , who with this one Quality , without
any shining ...
Page 92
P. S. I have heard our Criticks in the Coffee houses hereabout talk mightily of the
Unity of Time and Place : According to my Notion of the Matter , I have
endeavoured at Something like it in the Beginning of my Epistle . I desire to be
inform'd a ...
P. S. I have heard our Criticks in the Coffee houses hereabout talk mightily of the
Unity of Time and Place : According to my Notion of the Matter , I have
endeavoured at Something like it in the Beginning of my Epistle . I desire to be
inform'd a ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Essays [no. 164-167] The Spectator, George Gregory Smith |
| Contributor | George Gregory Smith |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1913 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2014 |
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