The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... wish to be banished from society before death withdraws us from it , don't let us trust to the world's respect only , let us strive also to conciliate it's love . But I do not wish to argue this point with the sect of the Murmurers ...
... wish to be banished from society before death withdraws us from it , don't let us trust to the world's respect only , let us strive also to conciliate it's love . But I do not wish to argue this point with the sect of the Murmurers ...
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... wish That fortune had bequeath'd me fuch a lot , A momentary figh furpriz'd my heart : Flocks , herds , and fields of golden grain , of these I envied not the owner ; but I saw The curling finoke from cottages afcend , And heard the ...
... wish That fortune had bequeath'd me fuch a lot , A momentary figh furpriz'd my heart : Flocks , herds , and fields of golden grain , of these I envied not the owner ; but I saw The curling finoke from cottages afcend , And heard the ...
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... wish I could live with- " out them ; no man can be happy , who has to " do with them . " - Is it fo ? ( faid I within my- self ) then I have the advantage over you in that refpect respect , for I have but one man and one 28 No 96 . THE ...
... wish I could live with- " out them ; no man can be happy , who has to " do with them . " - Is it fo ? ( faid I within my- self ) then I have the advantage over you in that refpect respect , for I have but one man and one 28 No 96 . THE ...
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... wish could have purchased his possessions , encumbered with the vexations of their owner , I would not have taken them at the price . Down funk the vifion of profperity ; fwifter than the shifting of a play- house scene vanished all the ...
... wish could have purchased his possessions , encumbered with the vexations of their owner , I would not have taken them at the price . Down funk the vifion of profperity ; fwifter than the shifting of a play- house scene vanished all the ...
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... wish they would well consider the land they live in ; if they do not know , they ought to be told , that we are a free people ; that freedom tends to make us independant of one another , fearless in our per- D3 fons , fons , warm in our ...
... wish they would well consider the land they live in ; if they do not know , they ought to be told , that we are a free people ; that freedom tends to make us independant of one another , fearless in our per- D3 fons , fons , warm in our ...
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