The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... hearts , and popery , three times expelled , was still upon the watch , and secretly whetting her weapons for a fourth attempt . Was this a period of focial happiness ? -The succession of the house of Hanover still left a pretender to ...
... hearts , and popery , three times expelled , was still upon the watch , and secretly whetting her weapons for a fourth attempt . Was this a period of focial happiness ? -The succession of the house of Hanover still left a pretender to ...
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... heart , and for the augmentation of his focial happiness . Whilft we were contending for our own rights , felf - de- fence compelled us to keep off the encroach- ments of others , that were hostile to those rights ; but these being ...
... heart , and for the augmentation of his focial happiness . Whilft we were contending for our own rights , felf - de- fence compelled us to keep off the encroach- ments of others , that were hostile to those rights ; but these being ...
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... heart and understanding feem to point the road too plainly to admit of a mistake . With these sanguine expectations I pursued my journey towards the magnificent feat of At- talus , and in my approach it was with pleasure I remarked the ...
... heart and understanding feem to point the road too plainly to admit of a mistake . With these sanguine expectations I pursued my journey towards the magnificent feat of At- talus , and in my approach it was with pleasure I remarked the ...
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... waft To deck thee like a bride , compare these scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with profperity , but warm VOL . IV . C With With grateful adoration , send up praise To the great N ° 95 . 17 THE OBSERVER .
... waft To deck thee like a bride , compare these scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with profperity , but warm VOL . IV . C With With grateful adoration , send up praise To the great N ° 95 . 17 THE OBSERVER .
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... hearts Are unison'd to the ecstatic cry Of the full pack , now give your steeds the rein ! Your's is the day - mine was , and is no more ; Yet ever as I hear you in the wind , Tho ' chill'd and hovering o'er my winter hearth , Forth ...
... hearts Are unison'd to the ecstatic cry Of the full pack , now give your steeds the rein ! Your's is the day - mine was , and is no more ; Yet ever as I hear you in the wind , Tho ' chill'd and hovering o'er my winter hearth , Forth ...
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