The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... stop tradition may begin ; so that I think an observing man , with all these aids and no short experience of his own to help them out , may form a pretty close compa- rifon in his own thoughts upon the subject . Here I must remind the ...
... stop tradition may begin ; so that I think an observing man , with all these aids and no short experience of his own to help them out , may form a pretty close compa- rifon in his own thoughts upon the subject . Here I must remind the ...
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... stop was put to our march , whilft the fcrutinizing eye of Attalus was employed in a minute examination of every thing appertaining to the cavalry and carriages , the horfes were wrong harneffed , they were to be changed from the off ...
... stop was put to our march , whilft the fcrutinizing eye of Attalus was employed in a minute examination of every thing appertaining to the cavalry and carriages , the horfes were wrong harneffed , they were to be changed from the off ...
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... stop by observing he had a paradife about him , and that it was a pity his vexations did not fuffer him to enjoy it - Upon this hint ! he seemed to recollect himself and proceeded to expatiate upon his own improvements , pointing . out ...
... stop by observing he had a paradife about him , and that it was a pity his vexations did not fuffer him to enjoy it - Upon this hint ! he seemed to recollect himself and proceeded to expatiate upon his own improvements , pointing . out ...
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... stop to the perfonal licentiousness of the comic poets : If we are to confider Athens only as the capital feat of genius , we must bewail this declension from her former state of freedom , which had produced so brilliant a period in the ...
... stop to the perfonal licentiousness of the comic poets : If we are to confider Athens only as the capital feat of genius , we must bewail this declension from her former state of freedom , which had produced so brilliant a period in the ...
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... Stop ! " Stop , my good friend , you cry ; not quite so fast ! " This man went fair and softly to his ruin ; " What talk you of two years ? As many days , " Two little days were long enough to finish " Young Epicharides ; he had fome ...
... Stop ! " Stop , my good friend , you cry ; not quite so fast ! " This man went fair and softly to his ruin ; " What talk you of two years ? As many days , " Two little days were long enough to finish " Young Epicharides ; he had fome ...
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