The Spectator, Volume 3Peter Wilson (Dublín) Peter Wilson, 1711 |
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... Purpose as the Execution of their Designs ? Modeft and well - governed Imaginations have by this Means loft the Representations of Ten Thousand charm- ing Portraitures , filled with Images of innate Truth , ge- nerous Zeal , courageous ...
... Purpose as the Execution of their Designs ? Modeft and well - governed Imaginations have by this Means loft the Representations of Ten Thousand charm- ing Portraitures , filled with Images of innate Truth , ge- nerous Zeal , courageous ...
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... purpose to plague me ; fhe us'd to dandle and play with this Figure as im- pertinently as if it had been a real Child : Sometimes The would let fall a Glove or a Pin - Cushion in the Street , and fhut or open her Casement three or four ...
... purpose to plague me ; fhe us'd to dandle and play with this Figure as im- pertinently as if it had been a real Child : Sometimes The would let fall a Glove or a Pin - Cushion in the Street , and fhut or open her Casement three or four ...
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... Purpose , upon an Object of Charity whom he has met with in the Street ; and afterwards pafs his Even- ing in a Coffee - house , or at a Friend's Fire - fide , with much greater Satisfaction to himself than he could have received from ...
... Purpose , upon an Object of Charity whom he has met with in the Street ; and afterwards pafs his Even- ing in a Coffee - house , or at a Friend's Fire - fide , with much greater Satisfaction to himself than he could have received from ...
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... Purpose ; What I spent I loft ; what I poffeffed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . SINCE I am thus infenfibly engaged in Sacred Writ , I cannot forbear making an Extract of several Paffages which I have always read ...
... Purpose ; What I spent I loft ; what I poffeffed is left to others ; what I gave away remains with me . SINCE I am thus infenfibly engaged in Sacred Writ , I cannot forbear making an Extract of several Paffages which I have always read ...
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... Purpose , have by the Force of my ill Stars made my Application to three Jilts fucceffively . • HYENA is one of thofe who form themselves into a melancholy and indolent Air , and endeavour to gain Admirers from their Inattention to all ...
... Purpose , have by the Force of my ill Stars made my Application to three Jilts fucceffively . • HYENA is one of thofe who form themselves into a melancholy and indolent Air , and endeavour to gain Admirers from their Inattention to all ...
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