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... nature who looks on the bleak hills and leafless woods without seriousness and awe . Spring is the season of gaiety ... natural inducements to jollity and conversation . Differences , we know , are never so effectually laid asleep as by ...
... nature who looks on the bleak hills and leafless woods without seriousness and awe . Spring is the season of gaiety ... natural inducements to jollity and conversation . Differences , we know , are never so effectually laid asleep as by ...
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... nature has subjected every human understanding ; but from a thousand extrinsic and accidental causes , from every thing which can excite kindness or ma- levolence , veneration or contempt . Many of those who have determined , with great ...
... nature has subjected every human understanding ; but from a thousand extrinsic and accidental causes , from every thing which can excite kindness or ma- levolence , veneration or contempt . Many of those who have determined , with great ...
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... nature never intended to excite envy or admiration , nor enabled to delight the eye or in- flame the heart . " This was naturally to be expected , and this I began to experience . But when I was no longer agi- tated by the perpetual ...
... nature never intended to excite envy or admiration , nor enabled to delight the eye or in- flame the heart . " This was naturally to be expected , and this I began to experience . But when I was no longer agi- tated by the perpetual ...
Contents
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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