The British Essayists: TatlerAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... tell you what you are . You are indeed as good as your neighbours ; but that is being very bad . You are a woman at the head of a family , and lead a perfect town - lady's life . You go on your own way , and consult nothing but your ...
... tell you what you are . You are indeed as good as your neighbours ; but that is being very bad . You are a woman at the head of a family , and lead a perfect town - lady's life . You go on your own way , and consult nothing but your ...
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... tell you , that I become weary and impatient of the derision of the gigglers of our sex ; who call me old maid , and tell me , I shall lead apes . If you are truly a patron of the dis- tressed , and an adept in astrology , you will ...
... tell you , that I become weary and impatient of the derision of the gigglers of our sex ; who call me old maid , and tell me , I shall lead apes . If you are truly a patron of the dis- tressed , and an adept in astrology , you will ...
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... tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the opportunities of attaining to ...
... tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the opportunities of attaining to ...
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... tell you with a great deal of gravity , that a flea is a rhinoceros , and a snail an hermaphrodite . I have known one of these whimsical philosophers , who has set a greater value upon a collection of spi- ders than he would upon a ...
... tell you with a great deal of gravity , that a flea is a rhinoceros , and a snail an hermaphrodite . I have known one of these whimsical philosophers , who has set a greater value upon a collection of spi- ders than he would upon a ...
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... tell- ing him how good a speaker , and how fine a gentle- man the devil was , we must reckon , allowing for the improvements of time , that she gave him the same provocation as if she had called him cuckold . The passionate and familiar ...
... tell- ing him how good a speaker , and how fine a gentle- man the devil was , we must reckon , allowing for the improvements of time , that she gave him the same provocation as if she had called him cuckold . The passionate and familiar ...
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