The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 30
... passed off before this philippic was concluded , that I began to think I had been carried out for no better purpose than to hear a declamation in the open air : I brought him at last to a stop by observing he had a paradife about him ...
... passed off before this philippic was concluded , that I began to think I had been carried out for no better purpose than to hear a declamation in the open air : I brought him at last to a stop by observing he had a paradife about him ...
Page 86
... passing a courtly com- pliment to the prince , at whose command he read it- " I cannot wonder , O king ! that you " disapprove of my comedy ; for he , who could " be entertained by it , must have been present " at the scenes it ...
... passing a courtly com- pliment to the prince , at whose command he read it- " I cannot wonder , O king ! that you " disapprove of my comedy ; for he , who could " be entertained by it , must have been present " at the scenes it ...
Page 168
... name for an ill - tempered fellow . I do acknowledge that I have lived upon terms of acquaintance with my biographer , and have passed some focial hours in in his company , but I never suspected he was 168 N ° 112 . THE OBSERVER ,
... name for an ill - tempered fellow . I do acknowledge that I have lived upon terms of acquaintance with my biographer , and have passed some focial hours in in his company , but I never suspected he was 168 N ° 112 . THE OBSERVER ,
Page 169
... passing along Vigo - lane upon a friendly call , as I intended it , to this very gentleman , of whom I complain , I took up a volume from a stall in a whitey - brown paper binding , and opening it at the title - page met my own face ...
... passing along Vigo - lane upon a friendly call , as I intended it , to this very gentleman , of whom I complain , I took up a volume from a stall in a whitey - brown paper binding , and opening it at the title - page met my own face ...
Page 215
... passed by the fig - tree and saw it dried up from the roots : This is told in detail . Saint Matthew agrees with Saint Mark in faying Jesus went into the temple the day before he destroyed the fig - tree , but he does not break the ...
... passed by the fig - tree and saw it dried up from the roots : This is told in detail . Saint Matthew agrees with Saint Mark in faying Jesus went into the temple the day before he destroyed the fig - tree , but he does not break the ...
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