The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... such a difpofition of our time more glaring , for whilft the best hours of the afternoon were devoted to the table , all exercife and enjoyment out of doors were were either to be given up , or taken only 26 N ° 96 . THE OBSERVER .
... such a difpofition of our time more glaring , for whilft the best hours of the afternoon were devoted to the table , all exercife and enjoyment out of doors were were either to be given up , or taken only 26 N ° 96 . THE OBSERVER .
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... such a furious rate upon his unoffending horfes , that the high - mettled animals fo refented the unjust cor- rection , that after struggling and kicking under the lafh for fome time , one of them reared across the pole of the chaife ...
... such a furious rate upon his unoffending horfes , that the high - mettled animals fo refented the unjust cor- rection , that after struggling and kicking under the lafh for fome time , one of them reared across the pole of the chaife ...
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... Such fociety as he can find in his own thoughts , and fuch wisdom as he was sent into the world with ,, such he must go on with : as wit is not absolutely annexed to pedigree in this country , and arts and feiences fometimes condefcend ...
... Such fociety as he can find in his own thoughts , and fuch wisdom as he was sent into the world with ,, such he must go on with : as wit is not absolutely annexed to pedigree in this country , and arts and feiences fometimes condefcend ...
Page 68
... such an addrefs must have been irresistibly charming ; but we may be very fure that Alexis was not fo complying , and that , instead of being pleased with the flattery , he turned the flatterer into ridicule upon all occafions , first ...
... such an addrefs must have been irresistibly charming ; but we may be very fure that Alexis was not fo complying , and that , instead of being pleased with the flattery , he turned the flatterer into ridicule upon all occafions , first ...
Page 69
... For pleasure is the wife man's fovereign good . " I think it will alfo bear a doubt whether a vo- luptuary could find in his heart to vent such F 3 irony irony as the following against the great fup- porters of N ° 100 . 69 THE OBSERVER .
... For pleasure is the wife man's fovereign good . " I think it will alfo bear a doubt whether a vo- luptuary could find in his heart to vent such F 3 irony irony as the following against the great fup- porters of N ° 100 . 69 THE OBSERVER .
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