The Spectator, Volume 2J. Duncan, 1791 |
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... live at a distance from the fa . shionable world ; but as it is a distinction of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Spe & tator , had ...
... live at a distance from the fa . shionable world ; but as it is a distinction of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Spe & tator , had ...
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... live under these consant apprehensions , and still go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and servile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid , to see any one man breathing ? yet he that is much in debt , is in ...
... live under these consant apprehensions , and still go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and servile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid , to see any one man breathing ? yet he that is much in debt , is in ...
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... lives in a state of invincible defire and potence , and always burns in the pursuit of what he ways acipairs to posicis . It is for this reason ( says Plato ) at the souls of the dead appear frequently in cemiteries , d hover about the ...
... lives in a state of invincible defire and potence , and always burns in the pursuit of what he ways acipairs to posicis . It is for this reason ( says Plato ) at the souls of the dead appear frequently in cemiteries , d hover about the ...
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... lives the lady Honoria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy conftitution , gay temper , and elegant person . She dresses a little too much like a girl , affects a childish fondness in the tone of her voice , sometimes a ...
... lives the lady Honoria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy conftitution , gay temper , and elegant person . She dresses a little too much like a girl , affects a childish fondness in the tone of her voice , sometimes a ...
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... live almost upon an equality In conversation : and as Honoria has given Flavia to unlerstand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
... live almost upon an equality In conversation : and as Honoria has given Flavia to unlerstand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
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