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... discourse upon Pin Money , * I do presume to trouble you with an account of my own case , which I look upon to be no less deplorable than that of Squire FRIBBLE . I am a person of no extraction , having begun the world with a small ...
... discourse upon Pin Money , * I do presume to trouble you with an account of my own case , which I look upon to be no less deplorable than that of Squire FRIBBLE . I am a person of no extraction , having begun the world with a small ...
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... discourse , then as long as there are any women in the world who take a pleasure in hearing themselves praised , and can bear the sight of a man prostrate at their feet , so long I shall make no wonder , that there are those of the ...
... discourse , then as long as there are any women in the world who take a pleasure in hearing themselves praised , and can bear the sight of a man prostrate at their feet , so long I shall make no wonder , that there are those of the ...
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... discourse , but to amuse and relax the mind of the reader , by frequently disengaging him from too painful an attention to the principal * Cresset , i . e . a blazing light set on a beacon ; in French , croissete , because beacons ...
... discourse , but to amuse and relax the mind of the reader , by frequently disengaging him from too painful an attention to the principal * Cresset , i . e . a blazing light set on a beacon ; in French , croissete , because beacons ...
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... Language - Master , who is to instruct them in the stile proper for a Minister in his ordinary discourse . And to the end that this College of dinary NO . 305 . 61 . THE SPECTATOR . has, it seems, brought so little honour and ...
... Language - Master , who is to instruct them in the stile proper for a Minister in his ordinary discourse . And to the end that this College of dinary NO . 305 . 61 . THE SPECTATOR . has, it seems, brought so little honour and ...
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dinary discourse . And to the end that this College of Statesmen may be thoroughly practised in the political stile , they are to make use of it in their common conversations , before they are employed either in foreign or domestic ...
dinary discourse . And to the end that this College of Statesmen may be thoroughly practised in the political stile , they are to make use of it in their common conversations , before they are employed either in foreign or domestic ...
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