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Page xii
... Some nations animate their words in common conversation , with many more motions of the body than others do . The French and the Italians are , in this re- fpect , much more fprightly than we . But there is no nation , hardly any per ...
... Some nations animate their words in common conversation , with many more motions of the body than others do . The French and the Italians are , in this re- fpect , much more fprightly than we . But there is no nation , hardly any per ...
Page 144
... Some , we see , " muft labour ( as the catechifm phrafes it ) to get their own living ; and others fhould do their duty in that state of life , what- ever that ftate is , unto which it hath pleafed God to call them . " All are af ...
... Some , we see , " muft labour ( as the catechifm phrafes it ) to get their own living ; and others fhould do their duty in that state of life , what- ever that ftate is , unto which it hath pleafed God to call them . " All are af ...
Page 267
... some lines fo extremely beau- tiful , that our modern language cannot reach them . Chaucer is too old , I fear ; but Spencer , though he be antiquated too , hath ftill charms remaining to make you enamoured of him . His antique verfe ...
... some lines fo extremely beau- tiful , that our modern language cannot reach them . Chaucer is too old , I fear ; but Spencer , though he be antiquated too , hath ftill charms remaining to make you enamoured of him . His antique verfe ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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