The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... 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 test of profperity , I could inftance numbers , who deport themselves with honour under the ...
... 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 test of profperity , I could inftance numbers , who deport themselves with honour under the ...
Page 47
... serve a purpose of their own , but without a good heart no man will apply his ex- perience to general practice . But as it is not upon theories that I wish to employ these papers , I shall now devote the re- mainder of my attention to ...
... serve a purpose of their own , but without a good heart no man will apply his ex- perience to general practice . But as it is not upon theories that I wish to employ these papers , I shall now devote the re- mainder of my attention to ...
Page 91
... serves the crow ; " Flames the meridian fun without a cloud ? " They bask like grasshoppers and chirp as loud ; " With oil they never even feaft their eyes ; " The luxury of stockings they despise , " But bare - foot as the crane still ...
... serves the crow ; " Flames the meridian fun without a cloud ? " They bask like grasshoppers and chirp as loud ; " With oil they never even feaft their eyes ; " The luxury of stockings they despise , " But bare - foot as the crane still ...
Page 152
... serves to introduce the whole machinery of the trial and condemnation of the innocent per- sons before the court of Advocates : In this part of the fable the contrivance is inimitable , and here the poet's art is a study , which every ...
... serves to introduce the whole machinery of the trial and condemnation of the innocent per- sons before the court of Advocates : In this part of the fable the contrivance is inimitable , and here the poet's art is a study , which every ...
Page 174
... serve than yourself : I have long noticed with regret the very little favor you receive from your contem- poraries , and shall gladly contribute to your kinder reception from pofterity ; now I flatter myself , if you adopt my collection ...
... serve than yourself : I have long noticed with regret the very little favor you receive from your contem- poraries , and shall gladly contribute to your kinder reception from pofterity ; now I flatter myself , if you adopt my collection ...
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