The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 40
... school before they are capable of improvement , only to • be out of harm's way . In the midst of this state of fuf- ، pence , not knowing how to dispose of myself , I was • fought for by a relation of mine , who , upon observing ⚫ a ...
... school before they are capable of improvement , only to • be out of harm's way . In the midst of this state of fuf- ، pence , not knowing how to dispose of myself , I was • fought for by a relation of mine , who , upon observing ⚫ a ...
Page 41
... school • four years . I don't know I ever play'd truant , or neg- • lected any task my master set me in my life . I think on what I read in school as I go home at noon and night , and so intently , that I have often gone half a mile out ...
... school • four years . I don't know I ever play'd truant , or neg- • lected any task my master set me in my life . I think on what I read in school as I go home at noon and night , and so intently , that I have often gone half a mile out ...
Page 42
... school , but I , have the clafsick authors in ufum Delphini , gilt and letter'd on the back . My fa- ⚫ther is often reckoning up how long I have been as school , and tells me he fears I do little good . My fa- ther's carriage so ...
... school , but I , have the clafsick authors in ufum Delphini , gilt and letter'd on the back . My fa- ⚫ther is often reckoning up how long I have been as school , and tells me he fears I do little good . My fa- ther's carriage so ...
Page 46
... school boys are punished ; and as it is very natural to imagine this will foon make ⚫ him tack about to fome other point , every gentleman • does himself the same justice as often as he receives the ⚫ affront . After this jig has gone ...
... school boys are punished ; and as it is very natural to imagine this will foon make ⚫ him tack about to fome other point , every gentleman • does himself the same justice as often as he receives the ⚫ affront . After this jig has gone ...
Page 61
... schools , and this being an • undertaking which more immediately respects them , I ⚫ think myself indispensably ... school boy he had read his life at the end of the dictionary . My friend asked asked me , in the next place , if ...
... schools , and this being an • undertaking which more immediately respects them , I ⚫ think myself indispensably ... school boy he had read his life at the end of the dictionary . My friend asked asked me , in the next place , if ...
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