The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... hand be what it will , it must be carried with an air of importance , and transacted , if we may so speak , with an ostentatious secrecy . These are your persons of long - heads , who would fain make the world believe their thoughts and ...
... hand be what it will , it must be carried with an air of importance , and transacted , if we may so speak , with an ostentatious secrecy . These are your persons of long - heads , who would fain make the world believe their thoughts and ...
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... hands that know nothing of any one of them ; and the truth is so far of the opposite side to what they paint , that it is more impracticable to live in esteem in courts than any where else with- out sincerity . Good sense is the great ...
... hands that know nothing of any one of them ; and the truth is so far of the opposite side to what they paint , that it is more impracticable to live in esteem in courts than any where else with- out sincerity . Good sense is the great ...
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... hands ; though I could not but observe , that Hatred turned aside his face , as not able to endure the sight of his younger brother . " I at length entered the inmost temple , the roof of which was raised upon an hundred marble pillars ...
... hands ; though I could not but observe , that Hatred turned aside his face , as not able to endure the sight of his younger brother . " I at length entered the inmost temple , the roof of which was raised upon an hundred marble pillars ...
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... hand on her heart : Courtesy , with a grateful aspect , and obliging behaviour : and the two sisters , who were always linked together and resembled each other , Silence and Obedience . Thus sat they all aronud in seemely rate , And in ...
... hand on her heart : Courtesy , with a grateful aspect , and obliging behaviour : and the two sisters , who were always linked together and resembled each other , Silence and Obedience . Thus sat they all aronud in seemely rate , And in ...
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... hand ; when Womanhood immediately rising up , sharply rebuked me for offering in so rude a manner to lay hold on a virgin . I excused myself as modestly as I could ; and at the same time dis- played my shield : upon which , as soon as ...
... hand ; when Womanhood immediately rising up , sharply rebuked me for offering in so rude a manner to lay hold on a virgin . I excused myself as modestly as I could ; and at the same time dis- played my shield : upon which , as soon as ...
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