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Page 118
... sometimes studied and sometimes casual . Every language has many words formed in imitation of the noises which they signify ; such are stridor , balo , and beatus , in Latin ; and , in English , to growl , to buz , to hiss , and to jar ...
... sometimes studied and sometimes casual . Every language has many words formed in imitation of the noises which they signify ; such are stridor , balo , and beatus , in Latin ; and , in English , to growl , to buz , to hiss , and to jar ...
Page 125
... sometimes exalted vegetables to sense , and sometimes degraded animals to me- chanism . 66 Nor was I less inclined to weaken the credit of history or perplex the doctrines of polity . I was always of the party which I heard the company ...
... sometimes exalted vegetables to sense , and sometimes degraded animals to me- chanism . 66 Nor was I less inclined to weaken the credit of history or perplex the doctrines of polity . I was always of the party which I heard the company ...
Page 130
... sometimes advanced against Truth , and sometimes waited the attack ; but always endeavoured to skirmish at a distance , perpetually shifted her ground , and let fly her arrows in different directions ; for she certainly found that her ...
... sometimes advanced against Truth , and sometimes waited the attack ; but always endeavoured to skirmish at a distance , perpetually shifted her ground , and let fly her arrows in different directions ; for she certainly found that her ...
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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