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Page 174
... praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit , but to pay a tribute . We have always pretensions to fame , which in our own hearts we know to be disputable , and which we are desirous to ...
... praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit , but to pay a tribute . We have always pretensions to fame , which in our own hearts we know to be disputable , and which we are desirous to ...
Page 175
... praise , there is no degree of encomiastic veneration which pride has refused . The emperors of Rome suffered themselves to be worshiped in their lives with altars and sacri- fices ; and , in an age more enlightened , the terms peculiar ...
... praise , there is no degree of encomiastic veneration which pride has refused . The emperors of Rome suffered themselves to be worshiped in their lives with altars and sacri- fices ; and , in an age more enlightened , the terms peculiar ...
Page 212
... praise of their first productions from academical retirement , and wasted their days in vice and dependance . The virgin who too soon aspires to celebrity and conquest perishes by childish vanity , ignorant cre- dulity , or guiltless ...
... praise of their first productions from academical retirement , and wasted their days in vice and dependance . The virgin who too soon aspires to celebrity and conquest perishes by childish vanity , ignorant cre- dulity , or guiltless ...
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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