The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... self - defence : I really think it a world very easy to live with upon passable good terms ; I am free to confefs it has mended me fince I have lived with it , and I am fully of opi- nion it has mended itself : I don't deny but it has ...
... self - defence : I really think it a world very easy to live with upon passable good terms ; I am free to confefs it has mended me fince I have lived with it , and I am fully of opi- nion it has mended itself : I don't deny but it has ...
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... self in a prediction , ( upon which I am willing to stake all my credit with the reader ) that when the modest genius of a Harrison shall be brought into fuller display , England will have to boast of a native architect , which the ...
... self in a prediction , ( upon which I am willing to stake all my credit with the reader ) that when the modest genius of a Harrison shall be brought into fuller display , England will have to boast of a native architect , which the ...
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... self would throw his pencil by , And swear the skies conspir'd against his art . But what muit Europe's fofter climes endure , Thy coaft , Calabria ! or the neighbouring ifle , Of antient Ceres once the fruitful feat ? Where is the ...
... self would throw his pencil by , And swear the skies conspir'd against his art . But what muit Europe's fofter climes endure , Thy coaft , Calabria ! or the neighbouring ifle , Of antient Ceres once the fruitful feat ? Where is the ...
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... self - exiles as you are , and face This only tyrant which our ifle endures , This hoary - headed terror of the year , Stern winter - What , tho ' in his icy chains Imprifon'd for a time e'en father Thames Checks his imperial current ...
... self - exiles as you are , and face This only tyrant which our ifle endures , This hoary - headed terror of the year , Stern winter - What , tho ' in his icy chains Imprifon'd for a time e'en father Thames Checks his imperial current ...
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... " out them ; no man can be happy , who has to " do with them . " - Is it fo ? ( faid I within my- self ) then I have the advantage over you in that refpect respect , for I have but one man and one 28 No 96 . THE OBSERVER .
... " out them ; no man can be happy , who has to " do with them . " - Is it fo ? ( faid I within my- self ) then I have the advantage over you in that refpect respect , for I have but one man and one 28 No 96 . THE OBSERVER .
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