The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... services ; common trash may be had at a common price , but clever fellows know their own confequence , and will stand out upon terms : If Nebuchadnezzar had not had all ... service I dedicate this short D4 of No 97. THE OBSERVER . 39.
... services ; common trash may be had at a common price , but clever fellows know their own confequence , and will stand out upon terms : If Nebuchadnezzar had not had all ... service I dedicate this short D4 of No 97. THE OBSERVER . 39.
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... service I dedicate this short ef- say , I must not omit to mention , that it behoves a proud man in all places and on all occafions to preserve an air of gloominess and melancholy , and never to fuffer so vulgar an expreffion as mirth ...
... service I dedicate this short ef- say , I must not omit to mention , that it behoves a proud man in all places and on all occafions to preserve an air of gloominess and melancholy , and never to fuffer so vulgar an expreffion as mirth ...
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... it , if that does . not correct his pride , his pride is incorrigible , and all the Obfervers in the world will be but waste paper in his service . N ° XCVIII . N ° XCVIII . Non erat his locus . THERE N ° 97. THE OBSERVER . 45.
... it , if that does . not correct his pride , his pride is incorrigible , and all the Obfervers in the world will be but waste paper in his service . N ° XCVIII . N ° XCVIII . Non erat his locus . THERE N ° 97. THE OBSERVER . 45.
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... service of the fick or maimed , whether it be on foot , on horseback or on wheels to resort to them in their diftresses , it cannot be for . want of help that the valetudinarian states his case to all com- panies so promiscuously , Let ...
... service of the fick or maimed , whether it be on foot , on horseback or on wheels to resort to them in their diftresses , it cannot be for . want of help that the valetudinarian states his case to all com- panies so promiscuously , Let ...
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... service I could to the living , when I was allowed to be one of their : number , so now I am voted out of their com- pany , I would gladly be of fome use to the dead . Your's , whilft I lived , H. POSTHUMOUS . P. S. I am forry I did not ...
... service I could to the living , when I was allowed to be one of their : number , so now I am voted out of their com- pany , I would gladly be of fome use to the dead . Your's , whilft I lived , H. POSTHUMOUS . P. S. I am forry I did not ...
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