The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 2J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 - Great Britain |
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... lately vanished , by the Declaration that he has made of her Choice , to take the happy Archibald for her Companion for Life . Upon her making this known , the Expence of Sweet Powder and Jeffamine are confiderably abated ; and the ...
... lately vanished , by the Declaration that he has made of her Choice , to take the happy Archibald for her Companion for Life . Upon her making this known , the Expence of Sweet Powder and Jeffamine are confiderably abated ; and the ...
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... lately faw ; Or if I am to have any Thing befides , ⚫ which may take from me the Senfe I have of what appeared most pleasing to me at that Time ( which Apparition it seems was you ) : Pull out thefe Eyes , before they lead me to be un ...
... lately faw ; Or if I am to have any Thing befides , ⚫ which may take from me the Senfe I have of what appeared most pleasing to me at that Time ( which Apparition it seems was you ) : Pull out thefe Eyes , before they lead me to be un ...
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... lately loft certain loose Sums , which half the Income of his Estate will bring in within feven Years : Befides which , he propofes to marry to set all right . He was therefore indolent enough to fpeak of this Matter with great ...
... lately loft certain loose Sums , which half the Income of his Estate will bring in within feven Years : Befides which , he propofes to marry to set all right . He was therefore indolent enough to fpeak of this Matter with great ...
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... lately received ; among others , one fubfcribed Philanthropos , another Emilia , both which fhall be honour'd . I have a Third from an Officer of the Army , wherein he defires I would do Justice to the many gallant Actions which have ...
... lately received ; among others , one fubfcribed Philanthropos , another Emilia , both which fhall be honour'd . I have a Third from an Officer of the Army , wherein he defires I would do Justice to the many gallant Actions which have ...
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... lately the Honour to drink Half a Pint with Sir Triftram , Harry Coppersmith , and Giles Twofhoes . Thefe Wags give one another Credit in Difcourfe according to their Purses ; they jeft by the Pound , and make Anfwers as they honour ...
... lately the Honour to drink Half a Pint with Sir Triftram , Harry Coppersmith , and Giles Twofhoes . Thefe Wags give one another Credit in Difcourfe according to their Purses ; they jeft by the Pound , and make Anfwers as they honour ...
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Page 67 - His allowance from his father was a very plentiful one for a man of sense, but as scanty for a modern fine gentleman. His frequent losses had reduced him to so necessitous a condition, that his lodgings were always haunted by impatient creditors; and all his thoughts employed in contriving low methods to support himself in a way of life from which he knew not how to retreat, and In which he wanted means to proceed. There is never wanting some...
Page 328 - for being the champion of England; and by this means had his thoughts insensibly moulded into the notions of discretion, virtue, and honour. I was extolling his accomplishments, when the mother told me, that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. "Betty...
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