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Monthly Archives: October 1758

No. 28. Wedding-day. Grocer’s wife. Chairman.

October 28, 1758

Three missives are submitted to the Idler.

No. 27. Power of habits.

October 21, 1758

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be.

No. 26. Betty Broom’s history.

October 14, 1758

If you publish my letter, it may encourage others to tell their stories, which may be as useful as those of great ladies.

No. 25. New actors on the stage.

October 7, 1758

Every human being has an action graceful to his own eye, a voice musical to his own ear, and a sensibility which no other bosom can excel.

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