Selections from The SpectatorMacmillan, 1895 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina xv
... taken off , and new editions were called for . It must be remembered , that the population of England was then hardly a third of what it now is . The number of Englishmen who were in the habit of reading , was probably not a sixth of ...
... taken off , and new editions were called for . It must be remembered , that the population of England was then hardly a third of what it now is . The number of Englishmen who were in the habit of reading , was probably not a sixth of ...
Pagina 2
... taken away the bells from it . As for the rest of my infancy , there being nothing in it re- markable , I shall pass it over in silence . I find that , during 20 my nonage , I had the reputation of a very sullen youth , but was always a ...
... taken away the bells from it . As for the rest of my infancy , there being nothing in it re- markable , I shall pass it over in silence . I find that , during 20 my nonage , I had the reputation of a very sullen youth , but was always a ...
Pagina 3
... taken for a merchant upon the Ex- change for above these ten years , and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock - jobbers at Jonathan's . In short , wherever I see a cluster of people , I always mix with them , though I never ...
... taken for a merchant upon the Ex- change for above these ten years , and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock - jobbers at Jonathan's . In short , wherever I see a cluster of people , I always mix with them , though I never ...
Pagina 10
... taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a ...
... taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a ...
Pagina 33
... taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and 10 down by him . I should have told my reader , that this Indian had been formerly married to one of the greatest beauties of his country , by whom he had several children ...
... taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and 10 down by him . I should have told my reader , that this Indian had been formerly married to one of the greatest beauties of his country , by whom he had several children ...
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