The Spectator, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... manner . This people have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been written on that subject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who delighted in being retired , and abstracted from the pleasures that ...
... manner . This people have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been written on that subject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who delighted in being retired , and abstracted from the pleasures that ...
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... manner of business and attention , I am the carelessest creature in the world , I have certainly the worst memory of any man living , ' are frequent expres- sions in the mouth of a pretender of this sort . It is a professed maxim with ...
... manner of business and attention , I am the carelessest creature in the world , I have certainly the worst memory of any man living , ' are frequent expres- sions in the mouth of a pretender of this sort . It is a professed maxim with ...
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... manner , that there is not probably a single species lost during this long tract of time . Could we have general bills of mortality of every kind of animals , or particular ones of every species in each continent and island , I could ...
... manner , that there is not probably a single species lost during this long tract of time . Could we have general bills of mortality of every kind of animals , or particular ones of every species in each continent and island , I could ...
Contents
VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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