The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... mind : If we do not wish to be banished from fociety before death withdraws us from it , don't let us truft to the world's refpect only , let us ftrive also to conciliate it's love . But I do not wish to argue this point with the fect ...
... mind : If we do not wish to be banished from fociety before death withdraws us from it , don't let us truft to the world's refpect only , let us ftrive also to conciliate it's love . But I do not wish to argue this point with the fect ...
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... minds of men in a ferment that could not speedily fubfide ; antient loyalty and high monarchical principles were not to be filenced at once by the peremptory fiat of an act of parliament ; men ftill harboured them in their hearts , and ...
... minds of men in a ferment that could not speedily fubfide ; antient loyalty and high monarchical principles were not to be filenced at once by the peremptory fiat of an act of parliament ; men ftill harboured them in their hearts , and ...
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... mind the day , when it was a mark of good - breeding to cram a poor furfeited guest to the throat , and the most focial hours of life were thrown away in a continual in- terchange of folicitations and apologies ? What a ftroke upon the ...
... mind the day , when it was a mark of good - breeding to cram a poor furfeited guest to the throat , and the most focial hours of life were thrown away in a continual in- terchange of folicitations and apologies ? What a ftroke upon the ...
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... advantages in the poffeffion of wealth , that the inhe- ritance of a great eftate , devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the the eye of fpeculation as a lot of fingular felicity 12 . No 94 : THE OBSERVER .
... advantages in the poffeffion of wealth , that the inhe- ritance of a great eftate , devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the the eye of fpeculation as a lot of fingular felicity 12 . No 94 : THE OBSERVER .
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... mind as matter of specu- lation only , now brought forth into actual prac- tice ; for amongst all my obfervations upon human affairs , few have given me greater and more frequent difappointment , than the almost general abuse of riches ...
... mind as matter of specu- lation only , now brought forth into actual prac- tice ; for amongst all my obfervations upon human affairs , few have given me greater and more frequent difappointment , than the almost general abuse of riches ...
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