The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... small insect , that eludes his fight , Proclaims that universal law of life , The first great blessing of the new - born world , Increase and multiply ! -No sooner heard By fultry climes , than strait the rebel fun Mounts his bright ...
... small insect , that eludes his fight , Proclaims that universal law of life , The first great blessing of the new - born world , Increase and multiply ! -No sooner heard By fultry climes , than strait the rebel fun Mounts his bright ...
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... small room in the base - story , which the owner of this fine place usually oc- cupied and in which he now received me : here I had been but a very few minutes before he proposed to shew me the house , and for that purpose conducted me ...
... small room in the base - story , which the owner of this fine place usually oc- cupied and in which he now received me : here I had been but a very few minutes before he proposed to shew me the house , and for that purpose conducted me ...
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... small nook of land , the want of which poifoned all his comforts . And what then are riches ? faid I within myself . The disturbers of human happiness ; the corrupters of human nature . I remember this Attalus in his youth ; I knew him ...
... small nook of land , the want of which poifoned all his comforts . And what then are riches ? faid I within myself . The disturbers of human happiness ; the corrupters of human nature . I remember this Attalus in his youth ; I knew him ...
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... small propensity to titter , for it would be downright rudeness to laugh in a man's face on such an occafion , and it hurts me to fee an ho- nest gentleman , who may have many more natu- ral good qualities , than he himself is aware of ...
... small propensity to titter , for it would be downright rudeness to laugh in a man's face on such an occafion , and it hurts me to fee an ho- nest gentleman , who may have many more natu- ral good qualities , than he himself is aware of ...
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... small one , seems to have been a splinter of the wreck , wherein he ridicules a certain gluttonous Pythagorean , named Epicharides , for evading the abstemious rule of his fect for eating nothing that has life , by swearing that his ...
... small one , seems to have been a splinter of the wreck , wherein he ridicules a certain gluttonous Pythagorean , named Epicharides , for evading the abstemious rule of his fect for eating nothing that has life , by swearing that his ...
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