The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Page 63
... master's gray pad . I scorned to compound for my faults by doing any of these elegant offices , and was accord- ingly the best scholar , and the worst used of any boy in the school . I shall conclude this discourse with an advantage ...
... master's gray pad . I scorned to compound for my faults by doing any of these elegant offices , and was accord- ingly the best scholar , and the worst used of any boy in the school . I shall conclude this discourse with an advantage ...
Page 162
... master to buy no more books for me , but says he will buy them himself . I asked him for Horace t'other day , and he told me in a passion he did not believe I was fit for it , but only my master had a mind to make him think I had got a ...
... master to buy no more books for me , but says he will buy them himself . I asked him for Horace t'other day , and he told me in a passion he did not believe I was fit for it , but only my master had a mind to make him think I had got a ...
Page 277
... master of them , and yet may come often into play during the course of a man's life . Such are all the parts of practical geometry . I have known a man contract a friendship with a mi- nister of state , upon cutting a dial in his window ...
... master of them , and yet may come often into play during the course of a man's life . Such are all the parts of practical geometry . I have known a man contract a friendship with a mi- nister of state , upon cutting a dial in his window ...
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