The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 52
... surprises us in the weak- ness of the foul , when death perhaps has robbed us of fome beloved object , it is not to contribute a tear , but to read us a lecture , that he comes ; when the heart is agonised , the temper is irrita- ble ...
... surprises us in the weak- ness of the foul , when death perhaps has robbed us of fome beloved object , it is not to contribute a tear , but to read us a lecture , that he comes ; when the heart is agonised , the temper is irrita- ble ...
Page 77
... surprise us , " Ere we fit down to earn it , such prevention " Wou'd come most opportune to save the trouble " Of a fick stomach and an aching head : " But whilst the punishment is out of fight , " And the full chalice at our lips , we ...
... surprise us , " Ere we fit down to earn it , such prevention " Wou'd come most opportune to save the trouble " Of a fick stomach and an aching head : " But whilst the punishment is out of fight , " And the full chalice at our lips , we ...
Page 123
... surprise , which he is subject to every moment of the day and night ? We are not apt to overlook our own interests and safety in worldly concerns , and therefore when the foul is given up to fin , I must suspect some error in the brain ...
... surprise , which he is subject to every moment of the day and night ? We are not apt to overlook our own interests and safety in worldly concerns , and therefore when the foul is given up to fin , I must suspect some error in the brain ...
Page 169
... surprise , when passing along Vigo - lane upon a friendly call , as I intended it , to this very gentleman , of whom I complain , I took up a volume from a stall in a whitey - brown paper binding , and opening it at the title - page met ...
... surprise , when passing along Vigo - lane upon a friendly call , as I intended it , to this very gentleman , of whom I complain , I took up a volume from a stall in a whitey - brown paper binding , and opening it at the title - page met ...
Page 261
... surprise , and had there not been a central point of at- traction , to which his eyes were necessarily im- pelled by laws not less irresistible than those of gravitation , there might have been no speedy stop to the eccentricity of ...
... surprise , and had there not been a central point of at- traction , to which his eyes were necessarily im- pelled by laws not less irresistible than those of gravitation , there might have been no speedy stop to the eccentricity of ...
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