The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... house of Hanover still left a pretender to the throne ; and though the character of the new fo- vereign had every requifite of temper and judg- ment for conciliating his government , yet the old leaven was not exhausted , fresh ...
... house of Hanover still left a pretender to the throne ; and though the character of the new fo- vereign had every requifite of temper and judg- ment for conciliating his government , yet the old leaven was not exhausted , fresh ...
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... house ; a rapid river of the pureft transparency ran through it and fell over a rocky channel into a noble lake within view of the mansion ; behind this upon the northern and eastern Banks I could difcern the tops tops of very stately ...
... house ; a rapid river of the pureft transparency ran through it and fell over a rocky channel into a noble lake within view of the mansion ; behind this upon the northern and eastern Banks I could difcern the tops tops of very stately ...
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... house I was shewn into a small room in the base - story , which the owner of this fine place usually oc- cupied and in which he now received me : here I had been but a very few minutes before he proposed to shew me the house , and for ...
... house I was shewn into a small room in the base - story , which the owner of this fine place usually oc- cupied and in which he now received me : here I had been but a very few minutes before he proposed to shew me the house , and for ...
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... house , befides this of shewing it ; but it happened to my hoft , as it does too frequently to the owners of fine places , that he mifled the tri- . bute of flattery by too great eagernefs in exact- ing it . It appeared to me that ...
... house , befides this of shewing it ; but it happened to my hoft , as it does too frequently to the owners of fine places , that he mifled the tri- . bute of flattery by too great eagernefs in exact- ing it . It appeared to me that ...
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... house with that " cursed brick - kiln for ever in my eye , and with " little intermiffion in my nostrils alfo ? " A new theme of discontent was now started , which the unhappy Attalus pursued with heavy complaints as we travelled down a ...
... house with that " cursed brick - kiln for ever in my eye , and with " little intermiffion in my nostrils alfo ? " A new theme of discontent was now started , which the unhappy Attalus pursued with heavy complaints as we travelled down a ...
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