The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 42 |
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... seems a duty on my conscience to im- part to you : I cannot reconcile myself to play the counterfeit in your company , and therefore if you will have patience to listen to a few particulars of a life , so unimportant as mine , I will ...
... seems a duty on my conscience to im- part to you : I cannot reconcile myself to play the counterfeit in your company , and therefore if you will have patience to listen to a few particulars of a life , so unimportant as mine , I will ...
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... seem to part from you with all that unmixt felicity , which your good fortune ought to inspire , do not reproach me for my unhappy weakness ; but recol- lect for once in your life , that your charms are irre- sistible and my soul only ...
... seem to part from you with all that unmixt felicity , which your good fortune ought to inspire , do not reproach me for my unhappy weakness ; but recol- lect for once in your life , that your charms are irre- sistible and my soul only ...
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... seems coeval with our na- ture ; if they , who have our infancy in charge , suffer this passion to fix and increase ... seem as if reason , which is expressly implanted in us for their correction and controul , was greatly over- matched ...
... seems coeval with our na- ture ; if they , who have our infancy in charge , suffer this passion to fix and increase ... seem as if reason , which is expressly implanted in us for their correction and controul , was greatly over- matched ...
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... seems as if most of the antient writers of history thought no events worth recording to posterity but accounts of battles and sieges and the overthrow of empires ; as if men were to be celebrated only in proportion to the devastation ...
... seems as if most of the antient writers of history thought no events worth recording to posterity but accounts of battles and sieges and the overthrow of empires ; as if men were to be celebrated only in proportion to the devastation ...
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... seems to give an insight into the benevolent design of the donor ; and as I hold it a more noble office to preserve the mind in health , than to keep the body after death from corruption , I cannot hesi- tate to give Osymanduas more ...
... seems to give an insight into the benevolent design of the donor ; and as I hold it a more noble office to preserve the mind in health , than to keep the body after death from corruption , I cannot hesi- tate to give Osymanduas more ...
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