The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page vii
... expressed for the ma- frimonial state is the reason that Inow venture to write to you without fear of being ridiculous ; and confess to you , that though it is three months since I lost a very agreeable woman , who was my wife , my ...
... expressed for the ma- frimonial state is the reason that Inow venture to write to you without fear of being ridiculous ; and confess to you , that though it is three months since I lost a very agreeable woman , who was my wife , my ...
Page xii
... expression lies very often more in the look , the tone of voice , or the gesture , than the words themselves ; which , being repeated in any other manner by the undiscerning , bear a very different interpretation from their original ...
... expression lies very often more in the look , the tone of voice , or the gesture , than the words themselves ; which , being repeated in any other manner by the undiscerning , bear a very different interpretation from their original ...
Page xx
... expressed himself as follows : “ MADAM , " I HAVE given in my estate to your counsel , and desired my own lawyer to insist upon no terms which your friends can propose for your certain ease and advantage ; for indeed I have no notion of ...
... expressed himself as follows : “ MADAM , " I HAVE given in my estate to your counsel , and desired my own lawyer to insist upon no terms which your friends can propose for your certain ease and advantage ; for indeed I have no notion of ...
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... that some have affirm- ed it cannot well be expressed in any other , came first to be rendered suspicious and in danger of being trans- ferred from its original sense to so distant an idea 14 No. 525 . THE SPECTATOR .
... that some have affirm- ed it cannot well be expressed in any other , came first to be rendered suspicious and in danger of being trans- ferred from its original sense to so distant an idea 14 No. 525 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... expression , recommend themselves by a more native elegance than passionate raptures , extravagant encomiums , and slavish adoration . If we were ad- mitted to search the cabinet of the beautiful Narcissa , among heaps of epistles from ...
... expression , recommend themselves by a more native elegance than passionate raptures , extravagant encomiums , and slavish adoration . If we were ad- mitted to search the cabinet of the beautiful Narcissa , among heaps of epistles from ...
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