The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volume 2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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... manner is a beauty in expreffions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a fet fubject , the more you are mov- ed yourself , the more you will move others . There is , faid he , a remarkable example of that kind : Efchines , a famous ...
... manner is a beauty in expreffions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a fet fubject , the more you are mov- ed yourself , the more you will move others . There is , faid he , a remarkable example of that kind : Efchines , a famous ...
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... have been furprised by company in fuch a difhabelle , apologise for it after this manner : Truly I am ashamed to be caught in this pickle ; but my husband and I were fitting all alone by ourselves , and I did ΤΟ BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS ,
... have been furprised by company in fuch a difhabelle , apologise for it after this manner : Truly I am ashamed to be caught in this pickle ; but my husband and I were fitting all alone by ourselves , and I did ΤΟ BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS ,
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... manner , with a full glass in their hands , every time I fet with them at table , though at the fame time they would perfuade me to drink their liquors in fuch quantities as I have found by experience will make me fick . They often ...
... manner , with a full glass in their hands , every time I fet with them at table , though at the fame time they would perfuade me to drink their liquors in fuch quantities as I have found by experience will make me fick . They often ...
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... indeed takes of from the elegance of our tongue , but at the fame time expreffes our ideas in the readiest manner , and confequently anfwers the first defign of fpeech TATLERS , AND GUARDIANS . 15 English Language, Jealousy, 200.
... indeed takes of from the elegance of our tongue , but at the fame time expreffes our ideas in the readiest manner , and confequently anfwers the first defign of fpeech TATLERS , AND GUARDIANS . 15 English Language, Jealousy, 200.
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Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads Joseph Addison. manner , and confequently anfwers the first defign of fpeech better than the multitudes of fyllables , which make the words of other languages more turable and fonorous ...
Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads Joseph Addison. manner , and confequently anfwers the first defign of fpeech better than the multitudes of fyllables , which make the words of other languages more turable and fonorous ...
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