The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page xiii
... late act of parliament ( a ) has secured all party liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend to them . However , good- breeding obliges a man to maintain the figure of the keenest attention ...
... late act of parliament ( a ) has secured all party liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend to them . However , good- breeding obliges a man to maintain the figure of the keenest attention ...
Page xiv
... late I have not been so much amazed at the declaimers in coffee - houses as I formerly was , being satisfied that they expect to be rewarded for their vociferations . Of these liars there are two sorts . The genius of the first consists ...
... late I have not been so much amazed at the declaimers in coffee - houses as I formerly was , being satisfied that they expect to be rewarded for their vociferations . Of these liars there are two sorts . The genius of the first consists ...
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... late miscellany published by Mr. Pope , in which there are many excellent compositions of that ingenious gen- tleman . I have had a pleasure of the same kind in perusing a poem that is just published on the Pros- pect of Peace , ( a ) ...
... late miscellany published by Mr. Pope , in which there are many excellent compositions of that ingenious gen- tleman . I have had a pleasure of the same kind in perusing a poem that is just published on the Pros- pect of Peace , ( a ) ...
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... late war , being of opinion that all such deaths may be very well accounted for by the Christian system of powder and ball . I do therefore strictly forbid the Fates to cut the thread of man's life , upon any pretence whatsoever ...
... late war , being of opinion that all such deaths may be very well accounted for by the Christian system of powder and ball . I do therefore strictly forbid the Fates to cut the thread of man's life , upon any pretence whatsoever ...
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... late communicated to me works of this nature , which , for their reputa- tions and my own , I have hitherto suppressed . Had I printed every one that came to my hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of ...
... late communicated to me works of this nature , which , for their reputa- tions and my own , I have hitherto suppressed . Had I printed every one that came to my hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of ...
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