Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... excellent country , as allowed him all the real conveniences of it , separated and purged from the incommodities . If I were but in his condition , I should think it hard measure , without being convinced of any crime , to be ...
... excellent country , as allowed him all the real conveniences of it , separated and purged from the incommodities . If I were but in his condition , I should think it hard measure , without being convinced of any crime , to be ...
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... excellent ; an immortal soul , and an intelligent mind , by which he nearly resembleth God himself , and is com- parable to angels : he invisibly is owner of en- dowments rendering him capable of the greatest and best things . What are ...
... excellent ; an immortal soul , and an intelligent mind , by which he nearly resembleth God himself , and is com- parable to angels : he invisibly is owner of en- dowments rendering him capable of the greatest and best things . What are ...
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... excellent . Yea , if thou art vain and proud , be sober and humble ; he is thy better , in true dig- nity much to be preferred before thee , far in real wealth surpassing thee : for , better is the 54 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... excellent . Yea , if thou art vain and proud , be sober and humble ; he is thy better , in true dig- nity much to be preferred before thee , far in real wealth surpassing thee : for , better is the 54 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... excellent work . Upon the whole , I think it must be confessed , that Homer was of the two , and perhaps of all others , the vastest , the sublimest , and the most wonderful genius ; and that he has been generally so esteemed , there ...
... excellent work . Upon the whole , I think it must be confessed , that Homer was of the two , and perhaps of all others , the vastest , the sublimest , and the most wonderful genius ; and that he has been generally so esteemed , there ...
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... excellent good mutton ; or hold , now my hand is in , I will help you . At which word , in much ceremony , with fork and knife he carves out two good slices of a loaf , and presents each on a plate to his brothers . The elder of the two ...
... excellent good mutton ; or hold , now my hand is in , I will help you . At which word , in much ceremony , with fork and knife he carves out two good slices of a loaf , and presents each on a plate to his brothers . The elder of the two ...
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