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... advantage from opposition and dissimilitude . He easily finds some faults in every human being , which he weighs against his own , and easily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own hand , and throws in or takes ...
... advantage from opposition and dissimilitude . He easily finds some faults in every human being , which he weighs against his own , and easily makes them preponderate while he keeps the balance in his own hand , and throws in or takes ...
Page 144
... advantage is on his side , without considering that unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of oppression ; and that it is little more criminal to deprive another of some real advantage , than to interrupt that forget ...
... advantage is on his side , without considering that unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of oppression ; and that it is little more criminal to deprive another of some real advantage , than to interrupt that forget ...
Page 193
... it unnecessary to take an account of a few supernumerary moments which , however employed , could have produced little advantage , and which VOL . II , S were exposed to a thousand chances of disturbance and interruption 108 , 193 RAMBLER .
... it unnecessary to take an account of a few supernumerary moments which , however employed , could have produced little advantage , and which VOL . II , S were exposed to a thousand chances of disturbance and interruption 108 , 193 RAMBLER .
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Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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