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The Spectator. ... - Page 232
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just thrashed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just thrashed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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Harrison's monthly collection [Formerly The monthly collection of tales. Ed ...

708 pages
...in collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat as it had been just thrashed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just thrashed s of sleep, and left me in an instant broad aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 7

Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...collecting them. In order to do this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had just been threshed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just thrashed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and, after...
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Paradiso perduto di Milton

John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...Mt collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The eritic applied himself to the task with great industry ad pleasure, and, after...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface ...

Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just thrashed out of the sheaf. He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The critic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and, after...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...collecting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf.* He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. Tho critic applicd himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...colleeting them. In order to this, he set before him a sack of wheat, as it had been just threshed out of the sheaf." He then bid him pick out the chaff from among the corn, and lay it aside by itself. The eritic applied himself to the task with great industry and pleasure, and after...
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