The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... should be forry for the world , if I could give no better reason for keeping well with it than in 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 ...
... should be forry for the world , if I could give no better reason for keeping well with it than in 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 ...
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... should be at no loss to form our judgment of them . I stopt at the age of queen Anne , because it was then that Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Addifon began began to spread their pallets , and when they had 8 N ° 94 . THE OBSERVER .
... should be at no loss to form our judgment of them . I stopt at the age of queen Anne , because it was then that Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Addifon began began to spread their pallets , and when they had 8 N ° 94 . THE OBSERVER .
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... should find in Attalus's society the pleasing gra- tification of feeing all those maxims , which I had hitherto revolved in my mind as matter of specu- lation only , now brought forth into actual prac- tice ; for amongst all my ...
... should find in Attalus's society the pleasing gra- tification of feeing all those maxims , which I had hitherto revolved in my mind as matter of specu- lation only , now brought forth into actual prac- tice ; for amongst all my ...
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... should have been forward to bestow : I was forry for this , because I believe he enjoyed little other pleasure in the poffeffion of his house , befides this of shewing it ; but it happened to my hoft , as it does too frequently to the ...
... should have been forward to bestow : I was forry for this , because I believe he enjoyed little other pleasure in the poffeffion of his house , befides this of shewing it ; but it happened to my hoft , as it does too frequently to the ...
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... should ever accompany the contemplation of those beauties , was wanting ; Attalus was one , of fortune's spoilt children , and his temper , grown . irritable 1 irritable by indulgence and humoursome by prof- perity , N ° 96 . THE ...
... should ever accompany the contemplation of those beauties , was wanting ; Attalus was one , of fortune's spoilt children , and his temper , grown . irritable 1 irritable by indulgence and humoursome by prof- perity , N ° 96 . THE ...
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