The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Page 53
... fortune- hunters are those who turn their heads that way , because they are good for nothing else . If a young fellow finds he can make nothing of Coke and Lit- tleton , he provides himself with a ladder of ropes , and by that means ...
... fortune- hunters are those who turn their heads that way , because they are good for nothing else . If a young fellow finds he can make nothing of Coke and Lit- tleton , he provides himself with a ladder of ropes , and by that means ...
Page 242
... fortune below the capacity of acting ac- cording to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentleman was generous ? ' My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain ...
... fortune below the capacity of acting ac- cording to his natural temper , than to say of him , That gentleman was generous ? ' My beloved author therefore has , in the sentence on the top of my paper , turned his eye with a certain ...
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... fortune ; and therefore may occasion a judg- ment of a suitable extravagance in other particulars : but the disadvantage with which the man of narrow circumstances acts and speaks , is so feelingly set forth in a little book called The ...
... fortune ; and therefore may occasion a judg- ment of a suitable extravagance in other particulars : but the disadvantage with which the man of narrow circumstances acts and speaks , is so feelingly set forth in a little book called The ...
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