The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Том 1Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1802 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... night , about a quarter before eight , at which time he ex- pired . For two days , the symptoms were the fame as in ordinary cafes ; but it is remarkable , that , from the first , he had a great dread that the disease would be mortal ...
... night , about a quarter before eight , at which time he ex- pired . For two days , the symptoms were the fame as in ordinary cafes ; but it is remarkable , that , from the first , he had a great dread that the disease would be mortal ...
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... night , methought , I faw the angry fhade of my father , which frowned on me as it paffed , but deigned not to fpeak , It feemed to reproach me with my degeneracy , with the bafenefs of my affociates , and the perfidious dupli- city of ...
... night , methought , I faw the angry fhade of my father , which frowned on me as it paffed , but deigned not to fpeak , It feemed to reproach me with my degeneracy , with the bafenefs of my affociates , and the perfidious dupli- city of ...
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... night and the night preceding . What we have collected , by a diligent inquiry , is , that the apparition has paid feveral vifits to the differ- -ent offices about the Treafury , alarming fome of the elerks , and impofing on others ...
... night and the night preceding . What we have collected , by a diligent inquiry , is , that the apparition has paid feveral vifits to the differ- -ent offices about the Treafury , alarming fome of the elerks , and impofing on others ...
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... night - cap . In other refpects , they concur pretty nearly with the coachman . They know not from whence he came ; but he feemed extremely weary , and would have lain down in the ftreet , had not a tremendous figure , who walked behind ...
... night - cap . In other refpects , they concur pretty nearly with the coachman . They know not from whence he came ; but he feemed extremely weary , and would have lain down in the ftreet , had not a tremendous figure , who walked behind ...
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... night , with fome alterations . His load confifted chiefly of ambiguous Acts of Parliament , Commiffions of Bankruptcy , and ponderous Lifts of Spies and Informers . Every few steps he was forced to eat one of his own fpeeches , which ...
... night , with fome alterations . His load confifted chiefly of ambiguous Acts of Parliament , Commiffions of Bankruptcy , and ponderous Lifts of Spies and Informers . Every few steps he was forced to eat one of his own fpeeches , which ...
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