The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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Page 13
... keep up a farce of retinue and grandeur within his own house , shall shrink at the expectation of surly demands at his doors . The debtor is the creditor's criminal , and all the officers of power and state , whom we behold make so ...
... keep up a farce of retinue and grandeur within his own house , shall shrink at the expectation of surly demands at his doors . The debtor is the creditor's criminal , and all the officers of power and state , whom we behold make so ...
Page 35
... keeps the students at her house when they should be at study . It would be worth your while to see how the idolaters alternately offer incense to their idols , and what heart - burnings arise in those who wait for their turn to receive ...
... keeps the students at her house when they should be at study . It would be worth your while to see how the idolaters alternately offer incense to their idols , and what heart - burnings arise in those who wait for their turn to receive ...
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... keep equipages . It is a common humour among the retinue of peo- ple of quality , when they are in their revels , that is , when they are out of their masters ' sight , to assume in a humourous way the names and titles of those whose ...
... keep equipages . It is a common humour among the retinue of peo- ple of quality , when they are in their revels , that is , when they are out of their masters ' sight , to assume in a humourous way the names and titles of those whose ...
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... keep no mea- sures with them as soon as I was at liberty ; but upon asking my old woman what was become of the two ladies , she told me she believed they were by that time within sight of Paris , for that they went away in a coach and ...
... keep no mea- sures with them as soon as I was at liberty ; but upon asking my old woman what was become of the two ladies , she told me she believed they were by that time within sight of Paris , for that they went away in a coach and ...
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... keeps up that order of men in this . These beauties rival each other I wish I could repeat the little circumstances of a conversation of the four lovers with the spirit in which the young lady I had an account from , re- presented it at ...
... keeps up that order of men in this . These beauties rival each other I wish I could repeat the little circumstances of a conversation of the four lovers with the spirit in which the young lady I had an account from , re- presented it at ...
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