The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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Page 52
... fathers , they will look upon with the utmost sorrow and contrition , that they did not regard before those whom they offended were to be no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember which would have highly pleased my father ...
... fathers , they will look upon with the utmost sorrow and contrition , that they did not regard before those whom they offended were to be no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember which would have highly pleased my father ...
Page 53
... father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and an ...
... father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and an ...
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... father remembered his own thoughts and inclinations when he was a son , and every son remembered what he expected from his father , when he himself was in a state of de- pendance , this one reflection would preserve men from being ...
... father remembered his own thoughts and inclinations when he was a son , and every son remembered what he expected from his father , when he himself was in a state of de- pendance , this one reflection would preserve men from being ...
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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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