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Page 5
... faid , after a man has heard a story with I extraordinary circumstances , It is a very good one if it be true : but , as for the following relatio . I fhould be glad were I fure it were falfe . It is told with fuch fimplicity , and ...
... faid , after a man has heard a story with I extraordinary circumstances , It is a very good one if it be true : but , as for the following relatio . I fhould be glad were I fure it were falfe . It is told with fuch fimplicity , and ...
Page 12
... faid he was Mr Froth .. SUNDAY . Indifpofed . MONDAY . Eight o'clock . Waked by Mifs Kitty . Aurengzebe lay upon the chair by me . Kitty repeat- ed without book the eight beft lines in the play . Went in our mobs to the dumb man ...
... faid he was Mr Froth .. SUNDAY . Indifpofed . MONDAY . Eight o'clock . Waked by Mifs Kitty . Aurengzebe lay upon the chair by me . Kitty repeat- ed without book the eight beft lines in the play . Went in our mobs to the dumb man ...
Page 19
... faid that the ladies of Chili always dreffed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of WILL'S laft night's lecture on thefe natural mirrors , as it feems to bear fome relation to the following letter ...
... faid that the ladies of Chili always dreffed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of WILL'S laft night's lecture on thefe natural mirrors , as it feems to bear fome relation to the following letter ...
Page 39
... faid ; particularly to the account he gave us of the lord who cut off the king of Morocco's head . Among feveral other figures , he was very well pleafed to fee the ftatefman Cecil upon his knees ;. and concluding them all to be great ...
... faid ; particularly to the account he gave us of the lord who cut off the king of Morocco's head . Among feveral other figures , he was very well pleafed to fee the ftatefman Cecil upon his knees ;. and concluding them all to be great ...
Page 40
... faid nothing of her in His chronicle . WE were then conveyed to the two coronation chairs , where my old friend , after having heard that the stone : underneath the most ancient of them ; which was brought from Scotland , was called ...
... faid nothing of her in His chronicle . WE were then conveyed to the two coronation chairs , where my old friend , after having heard that the stone : underneath the most ancient of them ; which was brought from Scotland , was called ...
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