The Rambler, Volume 1George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, 1752 - English essays |
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... fufficient to excite much regard . BUT fince the publick fuppofes every man that writes ambitious of applause , as fome ladies have taught themselves to believe that every man intends love , who expreffes civility , the miscarrige of ...
... fufficient to excite much regard . BUT fince the publick fuppofes every man that writes ambitious of applause , as fome ladies have taught themselves to believe that every man intends love , who expreffes civility , the miscarrige of ...
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... fufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this virulent generation , yet I have not hitherto perfuaded myself to take any meafures for flight or treaty . For I am in doubt , whether they can act against me by lawful authority ...
... fufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this virulent generation , yet I have not hitherto perfuaded myself to take any meafures for flight or treaty . For I am in doubt , whether they can act against me by lawful authority ...
Page 32
... fufficient vindication of a character , that it is drawn as it appears , for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative , that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience , for that obfervation which ...
... fufficient vindication of a character , that it is drawn as it appears , for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative , that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience , for that obfervation which ...
Page 45
... fufficient to overthrow it , and the powers of nature rise up against it . But we may very properly inquire , how near to this exalted state it is in our power to approach , how far we can exempt ourselves from out- ward influences ...
... fufficient to overthrow it , and the powers of nature rise up against it . But we may very properly inquire , how near to this exalted state it is in our power to approach , how far we can exempt ourselves from out- ward influences ...
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... fufficient for its accomplishment , fo far as the mind was engaged in the perfor- mance . For fuch is the inequality of our corporeal to our intellectual faculties , that we contrive in minutes what we execute in years , and the foul ...
... fufficient for its accomplishment , fo far as the mind was engaged in the perfor- mance . For fuch is the inequality of our corporeal to our intellectual faculties , that we contrive in minutes what we execute in years , and the foul ...
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