The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... READER . In the six hundred and thirty - second | Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform Spectator the reader will find an account of the rise of this eighth and last volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen ...
... READER . In the six hundred and thirty - second | Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform Spectator the reader will find an account of the rise of this eighth and last volume . I have not been able to prevail upon the several gentlemen ...
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... reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , mar- ried or a bachelor , with other particulars of the like nature , that conduce very ...
... reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , mar- ried or a bachelor , with other particulars of the like nature , that conduce very ...
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... reader , that though our club meet only on and am resolved to observe an exact neu- Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have ap- trality between the Whigs and Tories , un - pointed a committee to sit every night for less I shall be forced to ...
... reader , that though our club meet only on and am resolved to observe an exact neu- Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have ap- trality between the Whigs and Tories , un - pointed a committee to sit every night for less I shall be forced to ...
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... reader shall please to call it . letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetu- ally reading to her ; and , according to the news she heard , to which she was exceed- ingly attentive , she changed ...
... reader shall please to call it . letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetu- ally reading to her ; and , according to the news she heard , to which she was exceed- ingly attentive , she changed ...
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... reader at a more convenient time . These laws were enact- ed by a knot of artisans and mechanics , who used to meet every night ; and as there is something in them which gives us a pretty picture of low life , I shall tran- scribe them ...
... reader at a more convenient time . These laws were enact- ed by a knot of artisans and mechanics , who used to meet every night ; and as there is something in them which gives us a pretty picture of low life , I shall tran- scribe them ...
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