Selections from The SpectatorMacmillan, 1895 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee house , and 20 sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is ...
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee house , and 20 sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is ...
Pagina 7
... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
Pagina 9
... conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree ...
... conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree ...
Pagina 10
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man , who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude ...
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man , who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude ...
Pagina 26
... conversation , as also concerning the remarks 10 which they made in this country ; for , next to the forming a right notion of such strangers , I should be desirous of learning what ideas they had conceived of us . The upholsterer ...
... conversation , as also concerning the remarks 10 which they made in this country ; for , next to the forming a right notion of such strangers , I should be desirous of learning what ideas they had conceived of us . The upholsterer ...
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