The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... display , England will have to boast of a native architect , which the brightest age of Greece would glory to acknowledge . T N ° XCV . Μακάριος ὅστις ὀυσίαν καὶ νοῦν ἔχει · Χρῆται γὰρ ὅυτος ἐις ἃ δεῖ ταύτη καλῶς · Οὕτω μαθεῖν δεῖ πάντα ...
... display , England will have to boast of a native architect , which the brightest age of Greece would glory to acknowledge . T N ° XCV . Μακάριος ὅστις ὀυσίαν καὶ νοῦν ἔχει · Χρῆται γὰρ ὅυτος ἐις ἃ δεῖ ταύτη καλῶς · Οὕτω μαθεῖν δεῖ πάντα ...
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... display a fairer scene ? And what has Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how she's girded by her watery zone , Whilft all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of ...
... display a fairer scene ? And what has Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how she's girded by her watery zone , Whilft all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of ...
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... display the finest proportions of the human figure , and the muscular exertion of the fudden action he is thrown into furnish ample fcope to the ana- tomical science of the artist . The fable feigns him to be the son of the blind old ...
... display the finest proportions of the human figure , and the muscular exertion of the fudden action he is thrown into furnish ample fcope to the ana- tomical science of the artist . The fable feigns him to be the son of the blind old ...
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... displays . " Doft know whom thou'rt to sup with , friend ? I'll * tell thee ; " With gladiators , not with peaceful guests ; " Instead of knives we're arm'd with naked swords , " And swallow firebrands in the place of food : " Daggers ...
... displays . " Doft know whom thou'rt to sup with , friend ? I'll * tell thee ; " With gladiators , not with peaceful guests ; " Instead of knives we're arm'd with naked swords , " And swallow firebrands in the place of food : " Daggers ...
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... display of character , and also as being of a facetious , comic cast in the character of familiar life . The speaker is fome master of a family , who is complaining to his companion in the scene of the whimfical , con- ceited humour of ...
... display of character , and also as being of a facetious , comic cast in the character of familiar life . The speaker is fome master of a family , who is complaining to his companion in the scene of the whimfical , con- ceited humour of ...
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