The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... purposes : That happy temper , which can pre- serve a medium between diffipation and avarice , is not often to be found , and where I meet one man , who can laudably acquit himself under the teft of profperity , I could inftance numbers ...
... purposes : That happy temper , which can pre- serve a medium between diffipation and avarice , is not often to be found , and where I meet one man , who can laudably acquit himself under the teft of profperity , I could inftance numbers ...
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... purpose however was not to be de- . feated and , we muft pofitively proceed ; Attalus was not in a humour to submit with patience to disappointments , fo that having ordered two of his fervants to difmount , we took their horfes . and ...
... purpose however was not to be de- . feated and , we muft pofitively proceed ; Attalus was not in a humour to submit with patience to disappointments , fo that having ordered two of his fervants to difmount , we took their horfes . and ...
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... purpose than to hear a declamation in the open air : I brought him at laft to a stop by obferving he had a paradife about him , and that it was a pity his vexations did not fuffer him to enjoy it - Upon this hint ! he feemed to ...
... purpose than to hear a declamation in the open air : I brought him at laft to a stop by obferving he had a paradife about him , and that it was a pity his vexations did not fuffer him to enjoy it - Upon this hint ! he feemed to ...
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... purpose " to spite me , though I have bidden three times " the value of it : indeed it is indifpenfably ne- " ceffary to me , as you may well believe by the " annoyance it produces in his hands ; I have « tried all means to get it from ...
... purpose " to spite me , though I have bidden three times " the value of it : indeed it is indifpenfably ne- " ceffary to me , as you may well believe by the " annoyance it produces in his hands ; I have « tried all means to get it from ...
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... purpose than to provoke ridicule and con- tempt - Why is earth and ashes proud ? says the Son of Sirach ; Pride was not made for men . As I am determined to put these poor men upon their guard in all points , I shall remind them of ...
... purpose than to provoke ridicule and con- tempt - Why is earth and ashes proud ? says the Son of Sirach ; Pride was not made for men . As I am determined to put these poor men upon their guard in all points , I shall remind them of ...
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