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Pagina 1
... persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary estate ...
... persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary estate ...
Pagina 7
... person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London a per- son of indefatigable industry , strong reason , and great ex- 30 perience . His notions of trade are noble and generous ...
... person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London a per- son of indefatigable industry , strong reason , and great ex- 30 perience . His notions of trade are noble and generous ...
Pagina 9
... person , and always had a very easy fortune , time has made but very little impression , either by wrinkles on his forehead , or traces in his brain . His person is well turned , and of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of ...
... person , and always had a very easy fortune , time has made but very little impression , either by wrinkles on his forehead , or traces in his brain . His person is well turned , and of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of ...
Pagina 13
... persons ; for which reason I shall only inform my reader that the first couple were Tyranny and Anarchy , the second were Bigotry and Atheism , the third the Genius of a Commonwealth , and a young man of about twenty - two years of age ...
... persons ; for which reason I shall only inform my reader that the first couple were Tyranny and Anarchy , the second were Bigotry and Atheism , the third the Genius of a Commonwealth , and a young man of about twenty - two years of age ...
Pagina 14
... person whom I had never seen , with the Genius of Great Britain . At their first entrance the lady revived ; the bags swelled to their former bulk ; the piles of faggots , and heaps of paper , changed into 20 pyramids of guineas : and ...
... person whom I had never seen , with the Genius of Great Britain . At their first entrance the lady revived ; the bags swelled to their former bulk ; the piles of faggots , and heaps of paper , changed into 20 pyramids of guineas : and ...
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