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  • Be pleased to argue, that in truth the Affront is the more unpardonable because I am oblig'd to suffer it, and cannot fly from it.

    Spectator, August 28, 1711 1711

  • Be pleased to argue, that in truth the Affront is the more unpardonable because I am oblig'd to suffer it, and cannot fly from it.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • Kurtz: Conservative Candidates Consider Basic Journalism (Like Maddow?) an 'Affront'

    memeorandum 2010

  • Kurtz: Conservative Candidates Consider Basic Journalism (Like Maddow?) an 'Affront'

    memeorandum 2010

  • Kurtz: Conservative Candidates Consider Basic Journalism (Like Maddow?) an 'Affront'

    memeorandum 2010

  • Kurtz: Conservative Candidates Consider Basic Journalism (Like Maddow?) an 'Affront'

    memeorandum 2010

  • The Tea Party Hates Net Neutrality Because It's An 'Affront' To Free Speech.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader 2010

  • Affront to democracyLet us know what you think of the figures.

    Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate - Monday 23 January 2012

  • Project, tho 'he humour'd me out of Complaisance; for I had not let him know any thing of this Amour, supposing an Affront of this Kind might produce some fatal Accident; besides, my Pride would not permit me to let this Contempt of my Youth and Beauty be known to any.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Project, tho 'he humour'd me out of Complaisance; for I had not let him know any thing of this Amour, supposing an Affront of this Kind might produce some fatal Accident; besides, my Pride would not permit me to let this Contempt of my Youth and Beauty be known to any.

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

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