The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... received at the door by a servant , who was one of that gloomy generation that were then in fashion . He conducted him , with great silence and seriousness , to a long gallery which was darkened at noon - day , and had only a single ...
... received at the door by a servant , who was one of that gloomy generation that were then in fashion . He conducted him , with great silence and seriousness , to a long gallery which was darkened at noon - day , and had only a single ...
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... received from him the following letter , which , after having rectified some little orthographical mistakes , I shall make a present of to the public . " DEAR SPEC . , I was , about two nights ago , in company with very agreeable young ...
... received from him the following letter , which , after having rectified some little orthographical mistakes , I shall make a present of to the public . " DEAR SPEC . , I was , about two nights ago , in company with very agreeable young ...
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... received a piece of ill news at our club , which very sensibly afflicted every one of us . I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it . To keep them no longer in suspense , Sir Roger de Coverley is ...
... received a piece of ill news at our club , which very sensibly afflicted every one of us . I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it . To keep them no longer in suspense , Sir Roger de Coverley is ...
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... receiving additional improvements , ac- cording to the species in which they are implanted . This progress in nature is so very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which ...
... receiving additional improvements , ac- cording to the species in which they are implanted . This progress in nature is so very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which ...
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... received time out of mind in the commonwealth of letters , were not originally established with an eye to our paper manufacture , I shall leave to the discussion of others , and shall only remark fur- ther in this place , that all ...
... received time out of mind in the commonwealth of letters , were not originally established with an eye to our paper manufacture , I shall leave to the discussion of others , and shall only remark fur- ther in this place , that all ...
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