The Spectator, 5. köideJ. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1726 |
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... short , my Journal only holds up Folly to the Light , and thews the Difagree- ableness of such Actions as are indifferent in themselves , and blameable only as they proceed from Creatures endow'd with Reason . MY following Correspondent ...
... short , my Journal only holds up Folly to the Light , and thews the Difagree- ableness of such Actions as are indifferent in themselves , and blameable only as they proceed from Creatures endow'd with Reason . MY following Correspondent ...
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... short my • Story ; what can a Man do after all ? I durst not stand < for Member of Parliament last Election , for fear of fome < ill Consequence from my being off of my Post . What < I would therefore defire of you , is , to promote a ...
... short my • Story ; what can a Man do after all ? I durst not stand < for Member of Parliament last Election , for fear of fome < ill Consequence from my being off of my Post . What < I would therefore defire of you , is , to promote a ...
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... short to one of his Servants , who stood behind him , he bid hiın call a Hackney - Coach , and take care it was an elderly Man that drove it . HE then refumed his Discourse upon Mrs. Trueby's Water , telling me that the Widow Trueby was ...
... short to one of his Servants , who stood behind him , he bid hiın call a Hackney - Coach , and take care it was an elderly Man that drove it . HE then refumed his Discourse upon Mrs. Trueby's Water , telling me that the Widow Trueby was ...
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... Short - Face , 6 Hor . No your Speculation of Wednesday last , you have given ' us some account of that worthy Society of Brutes ' the Mohocks ; wherein you have particularly speci- fy'd the ingenious Performance of the Lion - Tippers ...
... Short - Face , 6 Hor . No your Speculation of Wednesday last , you have given ' us some account of that worthy Society of Brutes ' the Mohocks ; wherein you have particularly speci- fy'd the ingenious Performance of the Lion - Tippers ...
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... short , the Poet never mentions any thing of this Batrel but in such Images of Greatness and Terror as are fuitable to the Subject . Among several others , I cannot for- bear quoting that Passage , where the Power , who is descri bed as ...
... short , the Poet never mentions any thing of this Batrel but in such Images of Greatness and Terror as are fuitable to the Subject . Among several others , I cannot for- bear quoting that Passage , where the Power , who is descri bed as ...
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