The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... father was a very hard worldly man , and proud ; fo that there was no reason to believe he would cafily be brought ... father's approbation , or become poffeffed of his eftate . I paffionately loved him , and you will believe I did not ...
... father was a very hard worldly man , and proud ; fo that there was no reason to believe he would cafily be brought ... father's approbation , or become poffeffed of his eftate . I paffionately loved him , and you will believe I did not ...
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... father . In a word , he thuns and difowns me . Should I come to the house and confront him , the father would join in fupporting him against me , though he believed my flory ; fhould I talk it to the world , what reparation can I expect ...
... father . In a word , he thuns and difowns me . Should I come to the house and confront him , the father would join in fupporting him against me , though he believed my flory ; fhould I talk it to the world , what reparation can I expect ...
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... 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 " worth ten pounds a year , as a thief is worth a halter , and all my brothers ...
... 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 " worth ten pounds a year , as a thief is worth a halter , and all my brothers ...
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... father to an Indian Pagod . Hitherto I found her demands rose upon " every conceffion ; and had the gone on , I had been ruined : But by good fortune , with her third , which was Peggy , the height of her imagination came down to the ...
... father to an Indian Pagod . Hitherto I found her demands rose upon " every conceffion ; and had the gone on , I had been ruined : But by good fortune , with her third , which was Peggy , the height of her imagination came down to the ...
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... father ; a very great man ! I fhould have gone to him myself , if I had not been a Blockhead ; a very great man ! We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand . Sir ROGER , planting himself at our hiftorian's ...
... father ; a very great man ! I fhould have gone to him myself , if I had not been a Blockhead ; a very great man ! We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand . Sir ROGER , planting himself at our hiftorian's ...
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