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" I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very... "
The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's ... - Page 2
by Joseph Addison - 1854
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 1

English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...of it be a black or a fair man, " of a mild or choleric disposition, married, or a " bachelor, with other particulars of the like " nature, that conduce...very much to the right " understanding of an author." Montaigne was certainly of the same opinion ; and Chaucer, though he has told us nothing of his birth,...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 13

1815 - 892 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, nf a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars' of the like nature that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author.'* The name of Piston is well known in this country ; but it may conduce somewhat " tt> the right understanding"...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, 1 design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 5

Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author." I confess I shall read the works of the three great Italian writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio,...
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The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author. ' Postscript. g5 IN his conjecture about the identity of my person and character, I can assure him...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 7

1810 - 500 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an au. thor." (Spec. No. I.) And it was said of TOM BROWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele, which comes to the same thing. married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele/ which comes to the same thing. married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting, will fall to...
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 4

1814 - 580 pages
...writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author." (Spec. No. I.) And it was •aid of TOM BKOWN, I think, when the second edition of his poems did not...
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