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... letter which feems to come from a person who is made up of flesh and blood . Good Mr. SPECTATOR , I am married to a very honeft gentleman that is exceedingly good - natured , and at the fame time very • choleric . There is no ftanding ...
... letter which feems to come from a person who is made up of flesh and blood . Good Mr. SPECTATOR , I am married to a very honeft gentleman that is exceedingly good - natured , and at the fame time very • choleric . There is no ftanding ...
Page 41
... letter for my hufband , having a great veneration for your writings , will by that means know you do ' not approve of his conduct . • I am , • Your most humble fervant , & c . ' No. 564 . WEDNESDAY , JULY 7 . -Adfit Regula , peccatis ...
... letter for my hufband , having a great veneration for your writings , will by that means know you do ' not approve of his conduct . • I am , • Your most humble fervant , & c . ' No. 564 . WEDNESDAY , JULY 7 . -Adfit Regula , peccatis ...
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... letters . I have , fince my reaffuming the office of SPECTATOR , received abundance of epiftles from gentlemen of the blade , who , I find , have been fo ufed to action , that they know not how to lie ftill . They feem generally to be ...
... letters . I have , fince my reaffuming the office of SPECTATOR , received abundance of epiftles from gentlemen of the blade , who , I find , have been fo ufed to action , that they know not how to lie ftill . They feem generally to be ...
Page 54
... a new book ; and , if he finds feveral letters feparated from one another by a dash , he buys it up , and perufes it with great fatisfaction . An M and an b , a T a T and an r , with a fhort line 54 THE SPECTATOR . No. 567 .
... a new book ; and , if he finds feveral letters feparated from one another by a dash , he buys it up , and perufes it with great fatisfaction . An M and an b , a T a T and an r , with a fhort line 54 THE SPECTATOR . No. 567 .
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... letter to it . Some of our authors indeed , when they would be more fatirical than ordinary , omit only the vowels of a great man's name , and fall most unmer- cifully upon all the confonants . This way of writ- ing was first of all ...
... letter to it . Some of our authors indeed , when they would be more fatirical than ordinary , omit only the vowels of a great man's name , and fall most unmer- cifully upon all the confonants . This way of writ- ing was first of all ...
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