The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... letter . We long continued this . way of commerce ; and I with my needle , a few , books , and reading over and over my husband's letters , paffed my time in a refigned expectation of better days . Be pleafed to take notice , that ...
... letter . We long continued this . way of commerce ; and I with my needle , a few , books , and reading over and over my husband's letters , paffed my time in a refigned expectation of better days . Be pleafed to take notice , that ...
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... letters , in ⚫ which I always kept the certificate of my marriage , ⚫ when this rude fellow came in , and with the nauseous familiarity of fuch unbred brutes , fnatched the papers " out of my hand . I was immediately under fo great ...
... letters , in ⚫ which I always kept the certificate of my marriage , ⚫ when this rude fellow came in , and with the nauseous familiarity of fuch unbred brutes , fnatched the papers " out of my hand . I was immediately under fo great ...
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... letters , with accounts of many private lives caft into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sor's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious piece , intitled , The Journal of a Mobock . By ...
... letters , with accounts of many private lives caft into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sor's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious piece , intitled , The Journal of a Mobock . By ...
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... letter to be placed in a modish ftate of indifference between vice and virtue , and to be fufceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or fuch occurrences as had fhewn ...
... letter to be placed in a modish ftate of indifference between vice and virtue , and to be fufceptible of either , were there proper pains taken with her . Had her journal been filled with galantries , or fuch occurrences as had fhewn ...
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... letter from Mr. Froth . Mem . Locked it up in my ftrong box . Reft of the morning . Fentange , the tire - woman ... letters . Cupid and Veny . Ten o'clock . Stay'd within all day , not at home . From ten to twelve . In conference with my ...
... letter from Mr. Froth . Mem . Locked it up in my ftrong box . Reft of the morning . Fentange , the tire - woman ... letters . Cupid and Veny . Ten o'clock . Stay'd within all day , not at home . From ten to twelve . In conference with my ...
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