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... a manner , that even thofe , who would mifrepresent your , generous defigns for the publick good , cannot but approve the fteadiness and intrepidity with which you purfue A 2 pursue them . It is a moft fenfible pleasure to DEDICATION .
... a manner , that even thofe , who would mifrepresent your , generous defigns for the publick good , cannot but approve the fteadiness and intrepidity with which you purfue A 2 pursue them . It is a moft fenfible pleasure to DEDICATION .
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... I find that the intention of my laft Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my readers . I did not defign fo much to expofe vice as idlenefs , nefs , and aimed at thofe perfons who pafs away 10 THE SPECTATOR . No 323.
... I find that the intention of my laft Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my readers . I did not defign fo much to expofe vice as idlenefs , nefs , and aimed at thofe perfons who pafs away 10 THE SPECTATOR . No 323.
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nefs , and aimed at thofe perfons who pafs away their time rather in trifle and impertinence , than in crimes . and immoralities . Offences of this latter kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in fo ludicrous a manner . In fhort ...
nefs , and aimed at thofe perfons who pafs away their time rather in trifle and impertinence , than in crimes . and immoralities . Offences of this latter kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in fo ludicrous a manner . In fhort ...
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... thofe men of honour • was to be hanged . · March the 10th , 1711 The following letter is of a quite contrary nature ; but I add it here , that the reader may observe at the fame view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is fhewn in ...
... thofe men of honour • was to be hanged . · March the 10th , 1711 The following letter is of a quite contrary nature ; but I add it here , that the reader may observe at the fame view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is fhewn in ...
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... thofe languages , that people generally talked of feeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and rivers : Nay , fays he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a fwinging fellow called Polypheme , that made ufe of the fea ...
... thofe languages , that people generally talked of feeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and rivers : Nay , fays he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a fwinging fellow called Polypheme , that made ufe of the fea ...
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