The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 16
... because they cannot but be very shocking to the reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In this manner they carry on a war against mankind ; and by ⚫ the standing maxims of their policy , are to enter into no alliances but one , and that is ...
... because they cannot but be very shocking to the reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In this manner they carry on a war against mankind ; and by ⚫ the standing maxims of their policy , are to enter into no alliances but one , and that is ...
Page 17
... because I • am now my own man , and may match where I please ; ' for my father is taken away , and now I am come to ، my living which is ten yard land , and a house ; and ⚫ there is never a yard land in our field but it is as well ...
... because I • am now my own man , and may match where I please ; ' for my father is taken away , and now I am come to ، my living which is ten yard land , and a house ; and ⚫ there is never a yard land in our field but it is as well ...
Page 29
... because in the following book he describes the chariot of the Meffiah with living wheels , according to the plan in Ezekiel's vifion . --- Forth rush'd with whirlwind found The chariot of paternal Deity , Flashing thick flames , wheel ...
... because in the following book he describes the chariot of the Meffiah with living wheels , according to the plan in Ezekiel's vifion . --- Forth rush'd with whirlwind found The chariot of paternal Deity , Flashing thick flames , wheel ...
Page 34
... because they are made at home , and the has had fome share in the performance . There would be no end of relating to you the parti . culars of the annual charge , in furnishing her store- room with a profusion of pickles and preserves ...
... because they are made at home , and the has had fome share in the performance . There would be no end of relating to you the parti . culars of the annual charge , in furnishing her store- room with a profusion of pickles and preserves ...
Page 44
... because the faint , in his effigies before the book , was drawn without a beard . We fee by these instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards ; and that a barber was not then allow'd to make those depredations on the ...
... because the faint , in his effigies before the book , was drawn without a beard . We fee by these instances what homage the world has formerly paid to beards ; and that a barber was not then allow'd to make those depredations on the ...
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