The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... fay it , both brass and pewter , linens and woollens ; and though my house be thatch'd , yet , if you and 1 match , it shall go hard · SIR , Your most bumble fervant , Philanthropos . · hard but I will have one half of it flated NS 324 ...
... fay it , both brass and pewter , linens and woollens ; and though my house be thatch'd , yet , if you and 1 match , it shall go hard · SIR , Your most bumble fervant , Philanthropos . · hard but I will have one half of it flated NS 324 ...
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... fay it , have good The rest is torn off ; and pofterity must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the name of her lover . T • ****************** Thursday , March 13 . No 325 ...
... fay it , have good The rest is torn off ; and pofterity must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the name of her lover . T • ****************** Thursday , March 13 . No 325 ...
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... fays he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a fwinging fellow called Polypheme , that made ufe of the fea for his looking glass , and could never drefs himself to advantage but in a calm . My friend WILL , to fhew us the ...
... fays he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a fwinging fellow called Polypheme , that made ufe of the fea for his looking glass , and could never drefs himself to advantage but in a calm . My friend WILL , to fhew us the ...
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... fay the child is to bear a refemblance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have been married upwards of fix years , have had four • children , and my wife is now big with the fifth . The expences fhe has put me to in procuring what ...
... fay the child is to bear a refemblance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have been married upwards of fix years , have had four • children , and my wife is now big with the fifth . The expences fhe has put me to in procuring what ...
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... fays , that he had made twenty Tripodes running on golden wheels ; which upon occafion , might go of themselves to the affembly of the Gods , and when there was no more ufe for them , return again after the fame manner . Scaliger has ...
... fays , that he had made twenty Tripodes running on golden wheels ; which upon occafion , might go of themselves to the affembly of the Gods , and when there was no more ufe for them , return again after the fame manner . Scaliger has ...
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