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... shall say or do will never be forgot- ten ; that renown or infamy are fufpended upon every fyllable , and that nothing ought to fall from him which will not bear the teft of time . Under fuch folicitude , who can wonder that the mind is ...
... shall say or do will never be forgot- ten ; that renown or infamy are fufpended upon every fyllable , and that nothing ought to fall from him which will not bear the teft of time . Under fuch folicitude , who can wonder that the mind is ...
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... shall for the future always queftion the character of those who take her garret without beating down the price . The bill was then placed again in the window , and the poor woman was teazed for three weeks by innumerable paffengers ...
... shall for the future always queftion the character of those who take her garret without beating down the price . The bill was then placed again in the window , and the poor woman was teazed for three weeks by innumerable paffengers ...
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... shall pass his life under the di- rection of others ; that he has loft the power of re- gulating his conduct by his own knowledge , and muft lye at the mercy of those who undertake to give him affiftance and information . There is ...
... shall pass his life under the di- rection of others ; that he has loft the power of re- gulating his conduct by his own knowledge , and muft lye at the mercy of those who undertake to give him affiftance and information . There is ...
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... shall obtain , is no lefs an enemy to his quiet , than he who robs him of part of his patri- mony . But representations thus refined , exhibit no ade- quate idea of the guilt of pretended friendfhip , of artifices , artifices , by which ...
... shall obtain , is no lefs an enemy to his quiet , than he who robs him of part of his patri- mony . But representations thus refined , exhibit no ade- quate idea of the guilt of pretended friendfhip , of artifices , artifices , by which ...
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... shall feel it no longer . But to hope hap- piness and immortality , is equally vain . Our state may indeed be more or less embittered , as our du- ration may be more or less contracted : yet the ut- moft felicity which we can ever ...
... shall feel it no longer . But to hope hap- piness and immortality , is equally vain . Our state may indeed be more or less embittered , as our du- ration may be more or less contracted : yet the ut- moft felicity which we can ever ...
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Page 7 - While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excite our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear, is to fill a vacant hour with prattle and be forgotten.
Page 70 - In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry; that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter; yet, perhaps, scarce any man now peruses it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas.
Page 31 - Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments : any enlargement of...
Page 135 - Wood, which he firmly believed to be of the first edition, and, by the help of which, the text might be freed from several corruptions, if this age of barbarity had any claim to such favours from him.
Page 176 - Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place; the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation : its effects therefore are every where discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded.