The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... gave me a sudden good - will to- wards him . He stared , and betrayed an absence of thought , as he was going to communicate his busi- ness to me . But at last , recovering himself , he said with an air of great respect , Sir , it would ...
... gave me a sudden good - will to- wards him . He stared , and betrayed an absence of thought , as he was going to communicate his busi- ness to me . But at last , recovering himself , he said with an air of great respect , Sir , it would ...
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... gave him two hundred pounds ' worth of advice . He heard me with great attention , bowing , smiling , and showing all other instances of that natural good breeding which ingenuous tem- pers pay to those who are elder and wiser than ...
... gave him two hundred pounds ' worth of advice . He heard me with great attention , bowing , smiling , and showing all other instances of that natural good breeding which ingenuous tem- pers pay to those who are elder and wiser than ...
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... gave it as a stand- ing rule , that any person , who in any letter , bil- let , or discourse , should tell a woman he died for her , should , if she pleased , be obliged to live with her , or be immediately interred upon such their own ...
... gave it as a stand- ing rule , that any person , who in any letter , bil- let , or discourse , should tell a woman he died for her , should , if she pleased , be obliged to live with her , or be immediately interred upon such their own ...
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... 23 . THE watchman , who does me particular honours , as being the chief man in the lane , gave so very great a thump at my door last night , that I awakened at the knock , and heard myself complimented with the D3 NO . 111 . 29 TATLER .
... 23 . THE watchman , who does me particular honours , as being the chief man in the lane , gave so very great a thump at my door last night , that I awakened at the knock , and heard myself complimented with the D3 NO . 111 . 29 TATLER .
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... gave some account of in my paper of the seventeenth of the last month . I felt a sensible pleasure rising in me at the sight of him , my ac- quaintance having begun with his father when he was just such a stripling , and about that very ...
... gave some account of in my paper of the seventeenth of the last month . I felt a sensible pleasure rising in me at the sight of him , my ac- quaintance having begun with his father when he was just such a stripling , and about that very ...
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