The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... themselves upon • Perfons and Things , without any Sente of Time and Place . The poor ignorant People where I lay conceal'd , ' and now passed for a Widow , wondered I could be ' so shy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ...
... themselves upon • Perfons and Things , without any Sente of Time and Place . The poor ignorant People where I lay conceal'd , ' and now passed for a Widow , wondered I could be ' so shy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ...
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... themselves , and blameable only as they pro- ceed from Creatures endow'd with Reafon . MY following Correspondent , who calls her felf Cla- rinda , is such a Journalist as I require : She seems by her Letter to be placed in a modish ...
... themselves , and blameable only as they pro- ceed from Creatures endow'd with Reafon . MY following Correspondent , who calls her felf Cla- rinda , is such a Journalist as I require : She seems by her Letter to be placed in a modish ...
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... themselves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity , under the Title of the Mohock Club , a Name bor- rowed it feems from a fort of Cannibals in India , who * subsist by plundering and devouring all the Nations about them . The President is ...
... themselves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity , under the Title of the Mohock Club , a Name bor- rowed it feems from a fort of Cannibals in India , who * subsist by plundering and devouring all the Nations about them . The President is ...
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... themselves Protectors and Guarantees . 6 I must own , Sir , these are only broken incoherent * Memoirs of this wonderful Society , but they are the best • I have been yet able to procure ; for being but of late • Establishment , it is ...
... themselves Protectors and Guarantees . 6 I must own , Sir , these are only broken incoherent * Memoirs of this wonderful Society , but they are the best • I have been yet able to procure ; for being but of late • Establishment , it is ...
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... themselves in Wells , Fountains , Lakes , and Rivers : Nay , says he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a swinging Fellow , cal- led Polypheme , that made use of the Sea for his Looking- Glass , and could never dress ...
... themselves in Wells , Fountains , Lakes , and Rivers : Nay , says he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a swinging Fellow , cal- led Polypheme , that made use of the Sea for his Looking- Glass , and could never dress ...
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