The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... Master of the whole Compass of Business , and have fignalized Your Self in all the different Scenes of it . We admire fome for the Dignity , others for the Popularity of their Behaviour ; fome for their Clearness of Judgment , o- thers ...
... Master of the whole Compass of Business , and have fignalized Your Self in all the different Scenes of it . We admire fome for the Dignity , others for the Popularity of their Behaviour ; fome for their Clearness of Judgment , o- thers ...
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... Masters , and • teach their Scholars to cut Capers by running Swords ' thro ' their Legs ; a new Invention , whether origi- 6 6 6 « nally French I cannot tell : A third fort are the Tum- ' blers , whose office it is to set Women on ...
... Masters , and • teach their Scholars to cut Capers by running Swords ' thro ' their Legs ; a new Invention , whether origi- 6 6 6 « nally French I cannot tell : A third fort are the Tum- ' blers , whose office it is to set Women on ...
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... Masters ; and to make up • the Loffes occafion'd by her Abfence in Summer , every Day in the Week their Attendance is requir'd ; and as they all are People eminent in their Professions , their • Skill and Time must be recompenfed ...
... Masters ; and to make up • the Loffes occafion'd by her Abfence in Summer , every Day in the Week their Attendance is requir'd ; and as they all are People eminent in their Professions , their • Skill and Time must be recompenfed ...
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... Master set me in my Life . I think on what I read in School as I go home at noon and night , and so intently , that I have often gone half a • mile out of my way , not minding whither I went . Our • Maid tells me , she often hears me ...
... Master set me in my Life . I think on what I read in School as I go home at noon and night , and so intently , that I have often gone half a • mile out of my way , not minding whither I went . Our • Maid tells me , she often hears me ...
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... Master had a Mind to ' make him think I had got a great way in my Learning . I am sometimes a Month behind other Boys in getting the Books my Master gives Orders for . All the Boys in the School , but I , have the Classick Authors in ...
... Master had a Mind to ' make him think I had got a great way in my Learning . I am sometimes a Month behind other Boys in getting the Books my Master gives Orders for . All the Boys in the School , but I , have the Classick Authors in ...
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