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" I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who... "
The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII]. - Page 6
1803
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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Good Queen Anne: Or, Men and Manners, Life and Letters in England ..., Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 pages
...or a father, and can discover the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others better than those who are engaged in them —as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...economy, business, and diversion* of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as slandersby discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. . . . In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as slanders. by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. . . . In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I...
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...husband or a father, andean discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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The Life of Richard Steele, Volume 1

George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 462 pages
...on these subjects. In. the Spectator perfect neutrality in politics was promised, unless, indeed, " I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side." 1 Gay, in The Present State of Wit, says that most people judged the true cause of the cessation of...
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Thackeray's Works, Volume 8

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pages
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend...
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 164 pages
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, bet)ter than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,5 unless time. During the Stuart rebellion, in 1745, it was frequented largely by Jacobites....
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from the Spectator

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 168 pages
...husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,5 unless time. During the Stuart rebellion, in 1745, it was frequented largely by Jacobites....
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The Spectator: A Digest-index

William Wheeler - 1892 - 200 pages
...ISHMENT. MERCY : PARRICIDE ; PUNCrimp, Game of. 496-2-12,201654-2. Crincum Crancum. See BENCH. Criticism. Standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. 5-1-2Moliere used to read his comedies to his old housekeeper. 114-1-1. Addison's observations on....
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