The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... proper amusements of the powerful and the wise . This emperor , therefore , with great regularity , every day at five in the afternoon , leaves his money- changers , his publicans , and little hoarders of wealth , to their low pursuits ...
... proper amusements of the powerful and the wise . This emperor , therefore , with great regularity , every day at five in the afternoon , leaves his money- changers , his publicans , and little hoarders of wealth , to their low pursuits ...
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... proper for me to take notice of has so lately hap- pened : the disconsolate Maria has three days kept her chamber for the loss of the beauteous Fidelia , her lap - dog . Lesbia herself did not shed more tears for her sparrow . What ...
... proper for me to take notice of has so lately hap- pened : the disconsolate Maria has three days kept her chamber for the loss of the beauteous Fidelia , her lap - dog . Lesbia herself did not shed more tears for her sparrow . What ...
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... Chocolate - house , August 2 . THE HISTORY OF ORLANDO THE FAIR . P. WHATEVER malicious men may say of our Lucu- brations , we have no design but to produce unknown merit , or place in a proper light the actions 26 49 . TATLER .
... Chocolate - house , August 2 . THE HISTORY OF ORLANDO THE FAIR . P. WHATEVER malicious men may say of our Lucu- brations , we have no design but to produce unknown merit , or place in a proper light the actions 26 49 . TATLER .
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James Ferguson. merit , or place in a proper light the actions of our contemporaries who labour to distinguish themselves , whether it be by vice or virtue . For we shall never give accounts to the world of any thing , but what the lives ...
James Ferguson. merit , or place in a proper light the actions of our contemporaries who labour to distinguish themselves , whether it be by vice or virtue . For we shall never give accounts to the world of any thing , but what the lives ...
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... proper for me than such high points . But the writers of these epistles mistake the use and service I proposed to the learned world by such observations : for you are to understand , that the title of this paper gives me a right in ...
... proper for me than such high points . But the writers of these epistles mistake the use and service I proposed to the learned world by such observations : for you are to understand , that the title of this paper gives me a right in ...
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