The Rambler, Volume 3W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Hinton, B. Collins, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, T. Carnan, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, H. Baldwin, F. Newbery, J. Knox, J. Bew, J. Nichols, W. Goldsmith, and W. Fox, 1779 |
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... publick library ; for who can see the wall crouded on every side by mighty volumes , the ' works of laborious medita- tion , and accurate enquiry , now scarcely known but by the catalogue , and preferved only to in- crease the pomp of ...
... publick library ; for who can see the wall crouded on every side by mighty volumes , the ' works of laborious medita- tion , and accurate enquiry , now scarcely known but by the catalogue , and preferved only to in- crease the pomp of ...
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... publick conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend . To ' the quick circulation of such productions all the motives of interest and vanity concur ; the dispu- tant enlarges his knowledge , the zealot animates his paffion ...
... publick conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend . To ' the quick circulation of such productions all the motives of interest and vanity concur ; the dispu- tant enlarges his knowledge , the zealot animates his paffion ...
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... publick on behalf of thofe forlorn creatures , the women of the town ; whofe mifery here might = fatisfy the most rigorous cenfor , and whofe par- ticipation of our common nature might furely induce us to endeavour , at leaft , their ...
... publick on behalf of thofe forlorn creatures , the women of the town ; whofe mifery here might = fatisfy the most rigorous cenfor , and whofe par- ticipation of our common nature might furely induce us to endeavour , at leaft , their ...
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... publick ; or fancy that you have some particular powers of dolorous de- clamation , and warble out your groans with un- common elegance or energy ; it is certain , that whatever be your fubject , melancholy for the most part bursts in ...
... publick ; or fancy that you have some particular powers of dolorous de- clamation , and warble out your groans with un- common elegance or energy ; it is certain , that whatever be your fubject , melancholy for the most part bursts in ...
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... publick wisdom , fincerely and calmly studious of publick happiness . The learned , the judicious , the pious Boer TM haave relates , that he never faw a criminal drag- ged to execution without asking himself , " Who knows whether this ...
... publick wisdom , fincerely and calmly studious of publick happiness . The learned , the judicious , the pious Boer TM haave relates , that he never faw a criminal drag- ged to execution without asking himself , " Who knows whether this ...
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