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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...paper shall give a more particular account. There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting...little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child'sf, and while I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman, overhear the conversation of every...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

English essays - 1823 - 406 pages
...paper shall give a more particular account. There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance. Sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will'Sj and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 1

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...paper shall give a more particular account. There is no place of general resort, wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round 6f politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...paper shall give a morr particular account. There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often who have but few good qualities to recommend them....a weed that will grow in a barren soil. Humanity, This is, probably, an allusion to Mr. John Greaves, astronomical protesnor at Oxford, who in 1646 published...
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Spectator (The)

English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...particular account There is no place of general resort wherein 1 do not often make my appearance.^-Sometimes no b o , pid l a tmoke a pipe at Child's^ and while I eecm attentive to nothing but the Postman, overhear the conversation...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting mv head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening...Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's,! and whilst I * This is, probably, an allusion to Mr. John Greaves, astronomical professor at Cxford, who in 1646...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...paper shall give a more particular account. There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often ave done with such useful though ordinary qualifications?...a great family, who had rather see their children f and whilst I * Thi« is, probably, in allusion to Mr. John Greaves, astronomical professor at Oxford,...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...as 1710. "Sometimes," he says, " I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Wills', and listening with great attention to the narratives...little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Childs', and while I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman, [newspaper] overhear the conversation...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...and Times." mentions it as a place of fashionable resort as early as 1710. "Sometimes," he says, " I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Wills', and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular...
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Materials for Translating from English Into German

Adolph Heimann - 1851 - 316 pages
...with great attention to149 the narratives150 that are made151 in those little circular audiences.152 Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's; and whilst I seem attentive to153 nothing but the postman154, overhear153 the conversation156 of every table in the room. I appear...
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