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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. 155. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, ITU. ? Bee uga sefia ducnnt la. mala HOll. ARS. POET, 451, These things, which now seem frivolous and slight, Will prove of serious consequence. Koscommon. I Have more than once taken notice of an indecent licence taken in discourse, wherein the conversation on one part is involuntary, end the effect of some necessary circumstance. This happens in travelling together in the same hired coach, sitting near each other in any public assembly, or the like. I have, upon making observations of this sort, received innumerable messages from that part of the fair sex whose lot in life is to be of any trade or public way of life, They are all, to a woman, urgent with me to lay before the world the unhappy circumstances they are under, from the unreasonable liberty which is taken in their presence, to talk on what subject it is thought fit by every coxcomb who wants understanding or breeding. One or two of these complaints I shall set down. Mh. Spectator, I Keep a coffee-house, and am one of those whom you have thought fit to mention as an Idol some time ago. I suffered ft good deal of raillery upon that occasion; hut shall heartily forgive you, who are the cause of it, if you will do me justice in another point. What I ask of you is, to acquaint my customers (who are otherwise very good ones) that I am unavoidably hasped in my bar, and cannot help hearing the improper discourses they are pleased to entertain me with. They strive who shall say the most immodest things in my hearing. At the same time half a dozen of them loll at the bar staring just in my face, ready to interpret my looks and gestures according to their own imaginations. In this passive condition I know not where to cast my eyes, place my hands, or what to employ mysel...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217397759 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217397751 |
| Weight | 1.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 In |
| List Price | $30.61 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 448 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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