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Page 38
... French and all antiquity had advanced to the other , both being equally remote from nature : regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have ...
... French and all antiquity had advanced to the other , both being equally remote from nature : regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have ...
Page 39
... French treat the virtues like every thing else , but as an object of mode , it is to be hoped that they too will , every now and then , come into fashion again . The author I have been men- tioning reminds me of a French gentleman , who ...
... French treat the virtues like every thing else , but as an object of mode , it is to be hoped that they too will , every now and then , come into fashion again . The author I have been men- tioning reminds me of a French gentleman , who ...
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... French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com- plained of Samuel ...
... French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com- plained of Samuel ...
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