The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, 2 tomasLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... Persons - Mrs . Jenny's Wed- ding - dinner - Notice of a Pamphlet Steele . 80. Exorbitant price of Books - Letters from a splenetic Gentleman - From a Limper - Conti- nental Intelligence ... · Steele . 81. Vision of the Table of Fame ...
... Persons - Mrs . Jenny's Wed- ding - dinner - Notice of a Pamphlet Steele . 80. Exorbitant price of Books - Letters from a splenetic Gentleman - From a Limper - Conti- nental Intelligence ... · Steele . 81. Vision of the Table of Fame ...
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... persons concerned in it are men of honour and experience in the manners of men , and have fallen upon the truest foundation , as well as searched the bottom , of this evil . Mr. Sage . If it were in my power , every man * Spencer Cowper ...
... persons concerned in it are men of honour and experience in the manners of men , and have fallen upon the truest foundation , as well as searched the bottom , of this evil . Mr. Sage . If it were in my power , every man * Spencer Cowper ...
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... person , or goods , from violence ( I mean abstracted from all punctos or whims of honour ) , should ride the wooden horse in the Tilt- yard for such first offence ; for the second stand in the pillory ; and for the third be prisoner in ...
... person , or goods , from violence ( I mean abstracted from all punctos or whims of honour ) , should ride the wooden horse in the Tilt- yard for such first offence ; for the second stand in the pillory ; and for the third be prisoner in ...
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... person that had slighted his advice . The Major never in- quired into the quarrel , because it was not the man- ner then among the very topping fellows ; but got two swords of an equal length , and then waited upon Cornet Modish ...
... person that had slighted his advice . The Major never in- quired into the quarrel , because it was not the man- ner then among the very topping fellows ; but got two swords of an equal length , and then waited upon Cornet Modish ...
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... person he shoots at . Now , Sir , I am of opinion , that one can get no honour in killing a man , if one has it all rug , as the gamesters say , when they have a trick to make the game secure , though they seem to play upon the square ...
... person he shoots at . Now , Sir , I am of opinion , that one can get no honour in killing a man , if one has it all rug , as the gamesters say , when they have a trick to make the game secure , though they seem to play upon the square ...
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