The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 50
... pleased with the company we are in , and none but men of good education , great difcernment and nice feelings know how to be familiar . These rural gentry are great dealers in long stories of their own uninteresting atchievements , they ...
... pleased with the company we are in , and none but men of good education , great difcernment and nice feelings know how to be familiar . These rural gentry are great dealers in long stories of their own uninteresting atchievements , they ...
Page 68
... pleased with the flattery , he turned the flatterer into ridicule upon all occafions , first in his Me- ropis , again in his Ancylion , his Olympiodorus , and most of all in his celebrated comedy intitled The Parafite . Ariftotle ...
... pleased with the flattery , he turned the flatterer into ridicule upon all occafions , first in his Me- ropis , again in his Ancylion , his Olympiodorus , and most of all in his celebrated comedy intitled The Parafite . Ariftotle ...
Page 168
... pleased to impute to me : I don't know what he means by laying fuch things at my door ; I defy any one of my acquaintance to say I was a wit , which I always considered as another name for an ill - tempered fellow . I do acknowledge ...
... pleased to impute to me : I don't know what he means by laying fuch things at my door ; I defy any one of my acquaintance to say I was a wit , which I always considered as another name for an ill - tempered fellow . I do acknowledge ...
Page 218
... pleased . The fame is re- peated by Mark , i . 10 , 11 .; again by Luke , iii , 21 , 22 .; again by John , i . 32 , 33 , 34- If these supernatural figns and declarations do not not evince the superiority of Christ's miffion above that ...
... pleased . The fame is re- peated by Mark , i . 10 , 11 .; again by Luke , iii , 21 , 22 .; again by John , i . 32 , 33 , 34- If these supernatural figns and declarations do not not evince the superiority of Christ's miffion above that ...
Page 248
... pleased him , and he commented very gravely upon the commodious fize of the coach and the flow pace of the procession , which he faid shewed the good fenfe and difcretion of the city magiftrate , and observing him to be a very corpulent ...
... pleased him , and he commented very gravely upon the commodious fize of the coach and the flow pace of the procession , which he faid shewed the good fenfe and difcretion of the city magiftrate , and observing him to be a very corpulent ...
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