The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... tell you I am resolved to take up , and apply myself to business . I shall , therefore , beg you will stand my friend , and re- commend a customer to me for several goods that I have now upon my hands . I desired him to let me have a ...
... tell you I am resolved to take up , and apply myself to business . I shall , therefore , beg you will stand my friend , and re- commend a customer to me for several goods that I have now upon my hands . I desired him to let me have a ...
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... tell you also , ' said he , I have made a dedi- cation to it , which is about four sides close written , that may serve any one that is tall , and understands Latin . I have further , about fifty similes , that were never yet applied ...
... tell you also , ' said he , I have made a dedi- cation to it , which is about four sides close written , that may serve any one that is tall , and understands Latin . I have further , about fifty similes , that were never yet applied ...
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... tell you what is my distress ; I dare say , you read it in my countenance : I , therefore , beg your advice to the most unhappy of all men . ' Much experience has made me particularly sagacious in the discovery of distempers , and I ...
... tell you what is my distress ; I dare say , you read it in my countenance : I , therefore , beg your advice to the most unhappy of all men . ' Much experience has made me particularly sagacious in the discovery of distempers , and I ...
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... tell me he found it hard enough to pay his taxes towards the war , without making it more expensive by an allowance to me . With all this , he is as fond as he is rugged , and I am his only son . ' I looked upon the young gentleman with ...
... tell me he found it hard enough to pay his taxes towards the war , without making it more expensive by an allowance to me . With all this , he is as fond as he is rugged , and I am his only son . ' I looked upon the young gentleman with ...
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... her chariot , her domestics , and her very lap - dog , are so many instruments of torment . Tell me se- riously , do you think you could bear the sight of her fan ? ' He shook his head at the question NO . 107 . TATLER . 9.
... her chariot , her domestics , and her very lap - dog , are so many instruments of torment . Tell me se- riously , do you think you could bear the sight of her fan ? ' He shook his head at the question NO . 107 . TATLER . 9.
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