The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... circumstances of my correspondent , whose let- ter I now insert , are so frequent , that I cannot want compassion so much as to forbear laying it before the town . There is something so mean and inhuman in a direct Smithfield bargain ...
... circumstances of my correspondent , whose let- ter I now insert , are so frequent , that I cannot want compassion so much as to forbear laying it before the town . There is something so mean and inhuman in a direct Smithfield bargain ...
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... circumstances that are both credi- ble and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the pro- bable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art ...
... circumstances that are both credi- ble and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the pro- bable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art ...
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... circumstances of my own life , who am a soldier , and expect every day to receive orders , which will oblige me to leave behind me a wife that is very dear to me , and that very deservedly . She is at present , I am sure , no way below ...
... circumstances of my own life , who am a soldier , and expect every day to receive orders , which will oblige me to leave behind me a wife that is very dear to me , and that very deservedly . She is at present , I am sure , no way below ...
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