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... pleased with a story , in some mea- fure applicable to this piece of philofophy , which F read the other day in the Perfian Tales , as they are lately very well tranflated by Mr. Philips , and with an abridgment whereof I fhall here ...
... pleased with a story , in some mea- fure applicable to this piece of philofophy , which F read the other day in the Perfian Tales , as they are lately very well tranflated by Mr. Philips , and with an abridgment whereof I fhall here ...
Page 169
... not my father , who has a pretty good eftate of his own getting , and paffes in the world for a pru- VOL . VIII . + P • dent 6 " • dent man , been pleased to lay No. 596. THE SPECTATOR . 169 No. 596. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. ...
... not my father , who has a pretty good eftate of his own getting , and paffes in the world for a pru- VOL . VIII . + P • dent 6 " • dent man , been pleased to lay No. 596. THE SPECTATOR . 169 No. 596. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. ...
Page 170
6 " • dent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , That nothing fpoils a young fellow's fortune fo much as marrying early ; and that no man ought to think of wedlock until fix and twenty . Knowing his fentiments upon this head ...
6 " • dent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , That nothing fpoils a young fellow's fortune fo much as marrying early ; and that no man ought to think of wedlock until fix and twenty . Knowing his fentiments upon this head ...
Page 172
... pleased to fend me an account how they have been employed in fleep , and what notable adventures they have been engaged in during that moonfline in the brain . I fhall lay before my readers an abridgment of fome few of their ...
... pleased to fend me an account how they have been employed in fleep , and what notable adventures they have been engaged in during that moonfline in the brain . I fhall lay before my readers an abridgment of fome few of their ...
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us . cation which it is in the humour to be pleased with . If we wish to be in groves or bowers , among run- ning ftreams or falls of water , we fhall immediately find ourselves in the midst of such a scene as we de- . fire . If we ...
us . cation which it is in the humour to be pleased with . If we wish to be in groves or bowers , among run- ning ftreams or falls of water , we fhall immediately find ourselves in the midst of such a scene as we de- . fire . If we ...
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