The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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Page 10
... considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell him my dream . by command of the King of ...
... considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell him my dream . by command of the King of ...
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... consider myself here as a newly created being , introduced into a new world . Every object strikes with wonder and surprise . The imagination , still unsated , seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrences ...
... consider myself here as a newly created being , introduced into a new world . Every object strikes with wonder and surprise . The imagination , still unsated , seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrences ...
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... consider what sort of a creature the fine lady is , to whom he is supposed to pay his addresses , it is not strange to find him thus equipped in order to please . She is herself every whit as fond of powder , and tails , and hog's ...
... consider what sort of a creature the fine lady is , to whom he is supposed to pay his addresses , it is not strange to find him thus equipped in order to please . She is herself every whit as fond of powder , and tails , and hog's ...
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... consider luxury , whether as employing a number of hands , naturally too feeble for more laborious employment ; as finding a variety of occupation for others who might be totally idle ; or as furnishing out new inlets to happiness ...
... consider luxury , whether as employing a number of hands , naturally too feeble for more laborious employment ; as finding a variety of occupation for others who might be totally idle ; or as furnishing out new inlets to happiness ...
Page 51
... considering it would be my last payment . A person attended us , who , without once blushing , told a hundred lies he talked of a lady who died by pricking her finger ; of a king with a golden head , and twenty such pieces of absurdity ...
... considering it would be my last payment . A person attended us , who , without once blushing , told a hundred lies he talked of a lady who died by pricking her finger ; of a king with a golden head , and twenty such pieces of absurdity ...
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