The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... ftage , as we have already instanced ; it may well be prefumed that they at least drooped the wing , and flagged under the preffure of un- experienced reftraints ; but if I may forma conjecture of the comparative spirit and excel- lence ...
... ftage , as we have already instanced ; it may well be prefumed that they at least drooped the wing , and flagged under the preffure of un- experienced reftraints ; but if I may forma conjecture of the comparative spirit and excel- lence ...
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... ftage , in which they were long time opposed by the audience , and at last by certain ingenious expedients , which were a kind of compromife with the public , effected their point : This in -part was brought about by the introduction of ...
... ftage , in which they were long time opposed by the audience , and at last by certain ingenious expedients , which were a kind of compromife with the public , effected their point : This in -part was brought about by the introduction of ...
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