The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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Page 41
... leave of him ; I confefs also that I am not able to treat the subject in any other than a vague and defultory manner , for I know not how to define it myself , and at the same time am not reconciled to any other de- finition of pride ...
... leave of him ; I confefs also that I am not able to treat the subject in any other than a vague and defultory manner , for I know not how to define it myself , and at the same time am not reconciled to any other de- finition of pride ...
Page 42
... confefs I have often feen it in that more venial character , and therefore not to decide upon the point too hastily , I fhall leave the proud man to make make his choice between folly and madness , and take 42 N ° 97 , THE OBSERVER .
... confefs I have often feen it in that more venial character , and therefore not to decide upon the point too hastily , I fhall leave the proud man to make make his choice between folly and madness , and take 42 N ° 97 , THE OBSERVER .
Page 48
... with a minuteness , that leaves no one of your family unnamed , enquires after the health of your child who is dead , and defires to be kindly remem- bered bered to your wife , from whom you are di- 48 N ° 98 . THE OBSERVER .
... with a minuteness , that leaves no one of your family unnamed , enquires after the health of your child who is dead , and defires to be kindly remem- bered bered to your wife , from whom you are di- 48 N ° 98 . THE OBSERVER .
Page 52
... leaves us with the impreffion that we are men , who are ill prepared against the common viciffitudes of life , and endowed with a very fmall fhare of fortitude and refignation ; this early mifconception of our character in the courfe of ...
... leaves us with the impreffion that we are men , who are ill prepared against the common viciffitudes of life , and endowed with a very fmall fhare of fortitude and refignation ; this early mifconception of our character in the courfe of ...
Page 62
... leave of what is properly called The Old Comedy ; I am next to fpeak of that clafs of authors , who are generally filed writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will difcover itself in in the productions of their stage ...
... leave of what is properly called The Old Comedy ; I am next to fpeak of that clafs of authors , who are generally filed writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will difcover itself in in the productions of their stage ...
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