The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 |
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Page 76
... husbands we have buried , and how fhort a forrow the lofs of them was capable of occafioning . For my own part , Mrs. Prefident , as you call me , my first husband I was married to at fourteen , by my uncle and guardian , ( as I ...
... husbands we have buried , and how fhort a forrow the lofs of them was capable of occafioning . For my own part , Mrs. Prefident , as you call me , my first husband I was married to at fourteen , by my uncle and guardian , ( as I ...
Page 77
... husband was in his laft fickness ; the ⚫ honourable Edward Waitfort was one of the first who addreffed to me , advised to it by a coufin of • his that was my intimate friend , and knew to a 6. penny what I was worth . Mr. Waitført is a ...
... husband was in his laft fickness ; the ⚫ honourable Edward Waitfort was one of the first who addreffed to me , advised to it by a coufin of • his that was my intimate friend , and knew to a 6. penny what I was worth . Mr. Waitført is a ...
Page 78
... husband . I fhed tears enough : for my widowhood a week after my marriage , and when he was put in his grave , reckoning he had been two years dead , and myself a widow of that ftanding , I married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy ...
... husband . I fhed tears enough : for my widowhood a week after my marriage , and when he was put in his grave , reckoning he had been two years dead , and myself a widow of that ftanding , I married three weeks afterwards John Sturdy ...
Page 81
... husband gave me reason to repent I had not • ftaid for him ; he had married me for money , and I foon found he loved money to distraction ; . there was nothing he would not do to get it , no- thing he would not fuffer to preferve it ...
... husband gave me reason to repent I had not • ftaid for him ; he had married me for money , and I foon found he loved money to distraction ; . there was nothing he would not do to get it , no- thing he would not fuffer to preferve it ...
Page 82
... would thus give in their husbands pictures at length , you would fee they have had as little reafon as myself to lose their hours in weeping and wailing . · • FRIDAY , N ° 574 . FRIDAY , JULY 30 . Non 82 No 573 . THE SPECTATOR .
... would thus give in their husbands pictures at length , you would fee they have had as little reafon as myself to lose their hours in weeping and wailing . · • FRIDAY , N ° 574 . FRIDAY , JULY 30 . Non 82 No 573 . THE SPECTATOR .
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