The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Page 268
... learned , I have seen a folio writer place himself in an elbow chair , when the author of a duodecimo has , out of a just deference to his superior quality , seated himself upon a squab . In a word , authors are usually ranged in ...
... learned , I have seen a folio writer place himself in an elbow chair , when the author of a duodecimo has , out of a just deference to his superior quality , seated himself upon a squab . In a word , authors are usually ranged in ...
Page 269
... learned professions by the wisdom of our laws . I need not here take notice of the rank which is allotted to every doctor in each of these professions , who are all of them , though not so high as knights , yet a degree above ' squires ...
... learned professions by the wisdom of our laws . I need not here take notice of the rank which is allotted to every doctor in each of these professions , who are all of them , though not so high as knights , yet a degree above ' squires ...
Page 333
... learned will acquit me in this point , in which I have been so far from offending , that I have been scrupulous , perhaps to a fault , in quoting the authors of several passages which I might have made my own . But , as this assertion ...
... learned will acquit me in this point , in which I have been so far from offending , that I have been scrupulous , perhaps to a fault , in quoting the authors of several passages which I might have made my own . But , as this assertion ...
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