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" There are, besides the above-mentioned, innumerable retainers to physic, who, for want of other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for microscopical... "
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chace of butterflies ; not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spidercatchers. When I consider...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chace of butterflies ; not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spidercatchers. When I consider...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an airpump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects* upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chace of butterflies : not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spider-catchers. When I consider...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an airpump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects* upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chace of butterflies : not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spider-catchers. When I consider...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insecte upon the point of a needle for microscopical observations...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chase of butterflies: not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spider-catchers. When I consider...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chase of butterflies : not to mention the cockleshell-merchrjits and spider-catchers. When I consider...
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The Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian,

G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the Guillaume Temple se donne hien de la peine pour tâcher de découvrir d'où -vient que la ruche du...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 37

British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...themselves with the stifling of cats in. an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upoa the point of a needle for microscopical observations...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chase of butterflies : not to. mention the cockleshell-merchants and spidercatchers. When I consider...
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

1822 - 788 pages
...cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a. needle for microscopical observation ; I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers o chase of butterflies: not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spider-catchers. When I consider...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 5-6

British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...other patients, amuse themselves with the stifling of cats in an air-pump, cutting up dogs alive, or impaling of insects upon the point of a needle for...that are employed in the gathering of weeds, and the chase of butterflies: not to mention the cockleshell-merchants and spidercatchers. When I consider...
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