The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... systems in the phi- losophy of the heathens . Of the peculiar nation of the Jews ; their character , history , government and religion 184 CXV . Reasons offered ą priori for the neceffity of a Mediator : The appearance of Chrift I ...
... systems in the phi- losophy of the heathens . Of the peculiar nation of the Jews ; their character , history , government and religion 184 CXV . Reasons offered ą priori for the neceffity of a Mediator : The appearance of Chrift I ...
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... system of London hours , and at the diftance of two hundred miles from the capital had by choice adopted those very habits , which nothing but the general custom of late affem- blies and long fittings in Parliament can excufe upon the ...
... system of London hours , and at the diftance of two hundred miles from the capital had by choice adopted those very habits , which nothing but the general custom of late affem- blies and long fittings in Parliament can excufe upon the ...
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... system he was upon , he found himself grown unpopular amongst his country neighbours on this very score , and was piqued by their neglect of him : " It was a vil- lainous custom , " he observed , " and destructive " both of health and ...
... system he was upon , he found himself grown unpopular amongst his country neighbours on this very score , and was piqued by their neglect of him : " It was a vil- lainous custom , " he observed , " and destructive " both of health and ...
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... system of the Satyrs , as an occasional chorus or parody upon the severer and more tragic characters of the piece . " The next picture in our author's catalogue was by the hand of Timanthes : This modeft painter , though residing in the ...
... system of the Satyrs , as an occasional chorus or parody upon the severer and more tragic characters of the piece . " The next picture in our author's catalogue was by the hand of Timanthes : This modeft painter , though residing in the ...
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... system of reform ; no longer permitted to vent his fatire upon living characters , he took poft on the boldest ground , that was left for him to stand on , and opened his attack upon the dead by ridiculing the im- mortal Odyfley of ...
... system of reform ; no longer permitted to vent his fatire upon living characters , he took poft on the boldest ground , that was left for him to stand on , and opened his attack upon the dead by ridiculing the im- mortal Odyfley of ...
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