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And often must she be sick of the Curious Impertinents.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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There are another Kind of Impertinents which a Man is perplexed with in mixed Company, and those are your loud Speakers: These treat Mankind as if we were all deaf; they do not express but declare themselves.
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Impertinents will break in upon me, and come without Appointment?
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You have represented several sorts of _Impertinents_ singly, I wish you would now proceed, and describe some of them in Sets.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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But I appeal to you, whether this is to be called a Club, because so many Impertinents will break in upon me, and come without
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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There are another Kind of Impertinents which a Man is perplexed with in mixed Company, and those are your loud Speakers: These treat Mankind as if we were all deaf; they do not express but declare themselves.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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Thence home, W. Hewer with me, and then out with my own coach to the Duke of York's play-house, and there saw "The Impertinents," a play which pleases me well still; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of my eyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1669
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Thence home, W. Hewer with me, and then out with my own coach to the Duke of York's play-house, and there saw "The Impertinents," a play which pleases me well still; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of my eyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence carried Harris to his playhouse, where, though four o'clock, so few people there at "The Impertinents," as I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Impertinents," a pretty good play; and so by water to Spring
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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