The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, and Explanatory Notes : in Eight Volumes, Volume 4booksellers, 1797 - English essays |
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... converfation of a fober husband , and an • awkward chamber - maid . For variety I suppose you may ⚫ entertain yourself with madam in her grogram gown , the fpoufe of your parish vicar , who has by this time , I am fure , well furnished ...
... converfation of a fober husband , and an • awkward chamber - maid . For variety I suppose you may ⚫ entertain yourself with madam in her grogram gown , the fpoufe of your parish vicar , who has by this time , I am fure , well furnished ...
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... converfation agreeable to his tafte : he is almoft the end of my devotions ; half my prayers " are for his happiness . I love to talk of him , and never hear him named but with pleasure and emotion . · 6 6 I am 6 your friend , and wish ...
... converfation agreeable to his tafte : he is almoft the end of my devotions ; half my prayers " are for his happiness . I love to talk of him , and never hear him named but with pleasure and emotion . · 6 6 I am 6 your friend , and wish ...
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... converfation , That he was fa- tisfied with his share of life and fame . ' Se fatis vel ad na- turam , vel ad gloriam vixiffe . Many indeed have given over their pursuits after fame ; but that has proceeded either from the ...
... converfation , That he was fa- tisfied with his share of life and fame . ' Se fatis vel ad na- turam , vel ad gloriam vixiffe . Many indeed have given over their pursuits after fame ; but that has proceeded either from the ...
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... conver- fation with a beggar man that had afked an alms of him . I could hear my friend chide him for not finding out fome work ; but at the fame time faw him put his hand in his pocket and gave him fixpence . Our falutations were very ...
... conver- fation with a beggar man that had afked an alms of him . I could hear my friend chide him for not finding out fome work ; but at the fame time faw him put his hand in his pocket and gave him fixpence . Our falutations were very ...
Page 95
... converfation may fecond your raillery ; but • when you do it in a ftyle which every body else forbears , ' in respect to their quality , they have an easy remedy in forbearing to read you , and hearing no more of their ' faults . A man ...
... converfation may fecond your raillery ; but • when you do it in a ftyle which every body else forbears , ' in respect to their quality , they have an easy remedy in forbearing to read you , and hearing no more of their ' faults . A man ...
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