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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 42
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A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his...occasions ; sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing-psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes,...
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Sir Roger de Coverley

Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 266 pages
...Landlord to the whole Congregation, he keeps them in very good Order, and will suffer no body to sleep in it besides himself; for if by Chance he has been surprised...Sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and 4 looks about him, and if he sees any Body else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his Servants...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 3-4

Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised...occasions; sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes,...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1853 - 524 pages
...short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends...occasions. Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface ...

Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends...occasions. Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes...
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The Spectator

1853 - 756 pages
...Of five hundred a year who do not believe it. — Lup and looka about him, and if he sees anybody | else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his...these occasions. Sometimes he will be lengthening out The chaplain has often told me that, upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been...else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them. Several other of the old knight's particularities break out upon these occasions :...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1854 - 618 pages
...landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been...else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them. Several other of the old knight's particularities break out upon these occasions :...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to slecp in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been...else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them. Several other of the old knight's particularities break out upon these occasions :...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator ...

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 568 pages
...landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised...it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them. Several other of the...
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