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... excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time , there are many faults which I commit- ted that did not appear to me , even until I myself ...
... excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time , there are many faults which I commit- ted that did not appear to me , even until I myself ...
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... excellent judge of human life , and passed his own in company the most agreeable that ever was in the world . Au- gustus lived amongst his friends , as if he had his fortune to make in his own court . Candour and affability ...
... excellent judge of human life , and passed his own in company the most agreeable that ever was in the world . Au- gustus lived amongst his friends , as if he had his fortune to make in his own court . Candour and affability ...
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... his country excellent ser- vice at the plough - tail . 6 In like manner many a lawyer , who makes but an indifferent figure at the bar , might have good - humoured creatures , into whose heads it never No. 307 . 275 SPECTATOR .
... his country excellent ser- vice at the plough - tail . 6 In like manner many a lawyer , who makes but an indifferent figure at the bar , might have good - humoured creatures , into whose heads it never No. 307 . 275 SPECTATOR .
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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