Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... those , in whom folly is most likely to terminate in guilt , it is certainly of moft importance to be wife , This fubject has irrefiftibly obtruded itself upon my mind in the filent hour of meditation , because , as often as I have ...
... those , in whom folly is most likely to terminate in guilt , it is certainly of moft importance to be wife , This fubject has irrefiftibly obtruded itself upon my mind in the filent hour of meditation , because , as often as I have ...
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... those who intend its deftruction ; as a general , when the town is furrendered , retreats to the citadel , which is always lefs capable of defence when the outworks are poffeffed by the enemy . There is now little apparent difference ...
... those who intend its deftruction ; as a general , when the town is furrendered , retreats to the citadel , which is always lefs capable of defence when the outworks are poffeffed by the enemy . There is now little apparent difference ...
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... those slanders which could " have no influence upon the great , and which , " therefore , they were not folicitous to avoid . " — This addrefs , however ambiguous , and however gentle , was easily understood , and fiercely refented ...
... those slanders which could " have no influence upon the great , and which , " therefore , they were not folicitous to avoid . " — This addrefs , however ambiguous , and however gentle , was easily understood , and fiercely refented ...
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... those " gaieties which her station and the fashion fuffici " ently authorised . " Mercator's fufpicions , how- ever , were not wholly removed ; and he began to think he had found a confidant whom it would be his intereft to truft : he ...
... those " gaieties which her station and the fashion fuffici " ently authorised . " Mercator's fufpicions , how- ever , were not wholly removed ; and he began to think he had found a confidant whom it would be his intereft to truft : he ...
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... those by whom fhe had been traduced , that as foon as fhe had dif covered Fulvius ' bufinefs , fhe threw herself on her knees , and intreated , that if he knew where Mer- cator was to be found , he would urge him to return ; that that ...
... those by whom fhe had been traduced , that as foon as fhe had dif covered Fulvius ' bufinefs , fhe threw herself on her knees , and intreated , that if he knew where Mer- cator was to be found , he would urge him to return ; that that ...
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