Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Том 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 страници |
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... writers of both coun- tries is , the common hypocrisy and cant with which they set themselves up for moralists and saints when- ever they are about to be particularly scandalous . We could mention certain British Mawworms who never ...
... writers of both coun- tries is , the common hypocrisy and cant with which they set themselves up for moralists and saints when- ever they are about to be particularly scandalous . We could mention certain British Mawworms who never ...
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... writer as Camden , that this was a favourite saying of Sir John More , the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas , who notwithstanding ventured to put his hand three times into the bag , and , so far from having his life shortened by his ...
... writer as Camden , that this was a favourite saying of Sir John More , the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas , who notwithstanding ventured to put his hand three times into the bag , and , so far from having his life shortened by his ...
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... writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the Society , the President having most logically urged the propriety of such an institution , because this country had become " pre ...
... writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the Society , the President having most logically urged the propriety of such an institution , because this country had become " pre ...
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... writer should illustrate the fate of his productions , by ending his days in Privy - gardens . Physicians and surgeons might be quartered in the neighbourhood of Slaughter's coffee - house ; the spin- sters of the metropolis might ...
... writer should illustrate the fate of his productions , by ending his days in Privy - gardens . Physicians and surgeons might be quartered in the neighbourhood of Slaughter's coffee - house ; the spin- sters of the metropolis might ...
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... distant from the metropolis , where he purchased a beautiful cottage , and where the writer of this Memoir first had the happiness of his acquaintance . A natural modesty , and the perfect content he found 46 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... distant from the metropolis , where he purchased a beautiful cottage , and where the writer of this Memoir first had the happiness of his acquaintance . A natural modesty , and the perfect content he found 46 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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