The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 3J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... particular person , it would be diffi- cult to find out so proper a patron for it as your- self , there being none whose merit is more uni- versally acknowledged by all parties , and who has made himself more friends and fewer ene- mies ...
... particular person , it would be diffi- cult to find out so proper a patron for it as your- self , there being none whose merit is more uni- versally acknowledged by all parties , and who has made himself more friends and fewer ene- mies ...
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... particular favourite of all the young heirs , whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved , or a setting dog that he has made himself . He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mo- thers or ...
... particular favourite of all the young heirs , whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved , or a setting dog that he has made himself . He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mo- thers or ...
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... particular set of people in another , and by them preserved from one generation to another . Thus the vast jetting- coat and small bonnet , which was the habit in Henry the Seventh's time , is kept on in the yeomen of the guard ; not ...
... particular set of people in another , and by them preserved from one generation to another . Thus the vast jetting- coat and small bonnet , which was the habit in Henry the Seventh's time , is kept on in the yeomen of the guard ; not ...
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... particular upon these ridiculous horrors , did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country . At the same time I think a person who is thus terri- fied with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable ...
... particular upon these ridiculous horrors , did not I find them so very much prevail in all parts of the country . At the same time I think a person who is thus terri- fied with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable ...
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... particular persons who are now living , and whom I can not distrust in other matters of fact . I might here add , that not only the histo- rians , to whom we may join the poets , but like- wise the philosophers of antiquity , have ...
... particular persons who are now living , and whom I can not distrust in other matters of fact . I might here add , that not only the histo- rians , to whom we may join the poets , but like- wise the philosophers of antiquity , have ...
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