The Rambler, Volume 3W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Hinton, B. Collins, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, T. Carnan, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, H. Baldwin, F. Newbery, J. Knox, J. Bew, J. Nichols, W. Goldsmith, and W. Fox, 1779 |
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... house clean , and her accounts exact , took receipts for every payment , and could find them at a fudden call , enquired nicely after the condition of the tenants , read the price of stocks once a week , and purchased every thing at the ...
... house clean , and her accounts exact , took receipts for every payment , and could find them at a fudden call , enquired nicely after the condition of the tenants , read the price of stocks once a week , and purchased every thing at the ...
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... house , or repeated the wit of the clerks and porters . By these narratives I was fired with the fplendor and dignity of London , and of trade . I therefore devoted myself to a fhop , and warmed my imagi- nation from year to year with ...
... house , or repeated the wit of the clerks and porters . By these narratives I was fired with the fplendor and dignity of London , and of trade . I therefore devoted myself to a fhop , and warmed my imagi- nation from year to year with ...
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... house , and preferved me from the danger and reproach of defertión , to which my difcontent would certainly have urged me , had I continued any longer behind the counter . In the fixth year of my fervitude my brother died of drunken joy ...
... house , and preferved me from the danger and reproach of defertión , to which my difcontent would certainly have urged me , had I continued any longer behind the counter . In the fixth year of my fervitude my brother died of drunken joy ...
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... house from the outer door , which is often obferved to be infefted by vifitants , who talk inceffantly of beer , or linen , or a coat , and repeat the fame founds every morning , and fometimes again in the afternoon , without any ...
... house from the outer door , which is often obferved to be infefted by vifitants , who talk inceffantly of beer , or linen , or a coat , and repeat the fame founds every morning , and fometimes again in the afternoon , without any ...
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... house , for the expanfion and concentration of understanding , according to the exigence of different employments , or conftitu- tions . Perhaps some that fume away in medita- tions upon time and fpace in the tower , might compofe ...
... house , for the expanfion and concentration of understanding , according to the exigence of different employments , or conftitu- tions . Perhaps some that fume away in medita- tions upon time and fpace in the tower , might compofe ...
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