The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... World , what Reparation can I expect for an In- jury I cannot make out ? I believe he means to bring me , through Neceffity , to resign my Pretenfions to him for fome Provision for my Life ; but I will die first . Pray bid him remember ...
... World , what Reparation can I expect for an In- jury I cannot make out ? I believe he means to bring me , through Neceffity , to resign my Pretenfions to him for fome Provision for my Life ; but I will die first . Pray bid him remember ...
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... World to furnish you . with fuch Affistances as may promote that useful Work . For this Reason I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you will allow them a place in the Speices of Being ) ...
... World to furnish you . with fuch Affistances as may promote that useful Work . For this Reason I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you will allow them a place in the Speices of Being ) ...
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... World so very barba- rous as not to have any Looking - Glaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a Voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the Ladies of Chili always dress their Heads over a Bafon of Water .. I am ...
... World so very barba- rous as not to have any Looking - Glaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a Voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the Ladies of Chili always dress their Heads over a Bafon of Water .. I am ...
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... World ; for they say the Child is to bear a Resemblance of what ' was defir'd by the Mother . I have been marry'd up- ' wards of fix Years , have had four Children , and my • Wife is now big with the fifth . The Expences she has put me ...
... World ; for they say the Child is to bear a Resemblance of what ' was defir'd by the Mother . I have been marry'd up- ' wards of fix Years , have had four Children , and my • Wife is now big with the fifth . The Expences she has put me ...
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... World against the Stone or Gravel . I could have wished indeed that he had acquainted me with the Virtues of it sooner ; but it was too late to complain , and I knew what he had done was out of Good- will . Sir ROGER told me further ...
... World against the Stone or Gravel . I could have wished indeed that he had acquainted me with the Virtues of it sooner ; but it was too late to complain , and I knew what he had done was out of Good- will . Sir ROGER told me further ...
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