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Pagina 36
... tell you , that the free and disengaged behavior of a fine gentleman makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your favorite hath made insipid poets . I am rightly informed , you make a regular ap pearance every quarter ...
... tell you , that the free and disengaged behavior of a fine gentleman makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your favorite hath made insipid poets . I am rightly informed , you make a regular ap pearance every quarter ...
Pagina 39
... tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms : for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
... tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms : for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
Pagina 45
... tell you the pro- gress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are committed in Berwick or Exeter , as what is done in my own family . In a word , Sir , I have my ...
... tell you the pro- gress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are committed in Berwick or Exeter , as what is done in my own family . In a word , Sir , I have my ...
Pagina 50
... telling stories of spirits and apparitions . Upon my opening the door the young women broke off their discourse , but my landlady's daughters telling them that it was nobody but the gentleman ( for that is the name which I go by in the ...
... telling stories of spirits and apparitions . Upon my opening the door the young women broke off their discourse , but my landlady's daughters telling them that it was nobody but the gentleman ( for that is the name which I go by in the ...
Pagina 63
... tell them their own in pretty free language ; and sometimes divert them with merry tales , according as I am in humor . I am one of those who live in taverns to a great age , by a sort of regular intemperance ; I never go to bed drunk ...
... tell them their own in pretty free language ; and sometimes divert them with merry tales , according as I am in humor . I am one of those who live in taverns to a great age , by a sort of regular intemperance ; I never go to bed drunk ...
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