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Page 156
... pleasure of ap- plause . " There were many whom either the desire of en- joying my pleasantry , or the pride of being thought to enjoy it , brought often into my company ; but I was caressed in a particular manner by Demochares , a ...
... pleasure of ap- plause . " There were many whom either the desire of en- joying my pleasantry , or the pride of being thought to enjoy it , brought often into my company ; but I was caressed in a particular manner by Demochares , a ...
Page 164
... pleasure that they might solace themselves with a short enjoyment of that delicious region , after which they always de- termined to pursue their course without any other deviation . Reason was too often prevailed upon so far by these ...
... pleasure that they might solace themselves with a short enjoyment of that delicious region , after which they always de- termined to pursue their course without any other deviation . Reason was too often prevailed upon so far by these ...
Page 207
... pleasure , is doubtless necessary to him that deliberates for eternity , who is forming the only plan in which miscarriage cannot be repaired , and exa- mining the only question in which mistake cannot be rectified . Austerities and ...
... pleasure , is doubtless necessary to him that deliberates for eternity , who is forming the only plan in which miscarriage cannot be repaired , and exa- mining the only question in which mistake cannot be rectified . Austerities and ...
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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