The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... Behaviour - of a Beau at the Theatre 241 Letter on the Absence of Lovers- Remedies proposed . 242 Letters on improper Behaviour in a Stage - Coach Story of a Lot- tery - Ticket - from the Guardian - of two Nieces ... 243 On the Beauty ...
... Behaviour - of a Beau at the Theatre 241 Letter on the Absence of Lovers- Remedies proposed . 242 Letters on improper Behaviour in a Stage - Coach Story of a Lot- tery - Ticket - from the Guardian - of two Nieces ... 243 On the Beauty ...
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... behaviour , make so deep an impression on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little less than de- monstration in the most common discourse , and the schoolman is as great a friend to ...
... behaviour , make so deep an impression on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little less than de- monstration in the most common discourse , and the schoolman is as great a friend to ...
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... behaviour in a battle that was fought some years before either the Templar or myself were born . The young lawyer immediately took me up , and by reasoning above a quarter of an hour upon a subject which I saw he understood nothing of ...
... behaviour in a battle that was fought some years before either the Templar or myself were born . The young lawyer immediately took me up , and by reasoning above a quarter of an hour upon a subject which I saw he understood nothing of ...
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... behaviour ; and to avoid as much as possible what religion calls temptations , and the world opportunities . Did they but know how many thousands of their sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent freedoms to ruin and infamy ; and ...
... behaviour ; and to avoid as much as possible what religion calls temptations , and the world opportunities . Did they but know how many thousands of their sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent freedoms to ruin and infamy ; and ...
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... behaviour , determined about the fiftieth year of his age to enter upon wedlock . In order to make himself easy in it , he cast his eye upon a young woman who had nothing to recommend her but her beauty and her education , her parents ...
... behaviour , determined about the fiftieth year of his age to enter upon wedlock . In order to make himself easy in it , he cast his eye upon a young woman who had nothing to recommend her but her beauty and her education , her parents ...
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