The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 11
... causes altogether produced such an ease and fuavity of manners throughout the nation , as have totally changed the face of fociety , and levelled all those bars and barriers , which made the approaches to what was called good company so ...
... causes altogether produced such an ease and fuavity of manners throughout the nation , as have totally changed the face of fociety , and levelled all those bars and barriers , which made the approaches to what was called good company so ...
Page 44
... cause , why he should strut over the face of it , as if it was his own : I would then have him go back to his glass , and set his features in order for the very proudest and most arrogant look he can put on ; let him knit his brow ...
... cause , why he should strut over the face of it , as if it was his own : I would then have him go back to his glass , and set his features in order for the very proudest and most arrogant look he can put on ; let him knit his brow ...
Page 96
... Took heart , and breaking first the awful filence , " Humbly crav'd leave to think that it was round : " The cause was now at issue , and a fecond " Opin'd " Opin'd it was an herb - A third conceiv'd 06 N ° 104 . THE OBSERVER .
... Took heart , and breaking first the awful filence , " Humbly crav'd leave to think that it was round : " The cause was now at issue , and a fecond " Opin'd " Opin'd it was an herb - A third conceiv'd 06 N ° 104 . THE OBSERVER .
Page 135
... cause , but that of virtue ; men will not chuse crooked passages and bye- alleys to preferment , when the broad highway of honesty is laid open and strait before them . A prince , though he gives a good example in his own person , what ...
... cause , but that of virtue ; men will not chuse crooked passages and bye- alleys to preferment , when the broad highway of honesty is laid open and strait before them . A prince , though he gives a good example in his own person , what ...
Page 153
... cause of incorrectness , or at least the best and most candid plea in ex- cuse of it : For who can deny that nature is vio- lated by the abfurdity of Volpone's unseasonable insults to the very persons , who had witnessed falsely in his ...
... cause of incorrectness , or at least the best and most candid plea in ex- cuse of it : For who can deny that nature is vio- lated by the abfurdity of Volpone's unseasonable insults to the very persons , who had witnessed falsely in his ...
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