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... wishes and exasperated our necessities , and my father could not always restrain himself from exclaiming , that no creature had so many lives as a cat and an old maid . At last , upon the recovery of his sister from an ague , which she ...
... wishes and exasperated our necessities , and my father could not always restrain himself from exclaiming , that no creature had so many lives as a cat and an old maid . At last , upon the recovery of his sister from an ague , which she ...
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... wish , that he had been reserved in the insensibility of nonex- istence to some happier hour , when literary merit shall no longer be despised , and the gifts and ca- resses of mankind shall recompense the toils of study , and add ...
... wish , that he had been reserved in the insensibility of nonex- istence to some happier hour , when literary merit shall no longer be despised , and the gifts and ca- resses of mankind shall recompense the toils of study , and add ...
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... wish importunate to be satisfied , and some faculty rest- less and turbulent for want of its enjoyment . The desire of knowledge , though often animated by extrinsic and adventitious motives , seems on many occasions to operate without ...
... wish importunate to be satisfied , and some faculty rest- less and turbulent for want of its enjoyment . The desire of knowledge , though often animated by extrinsic and adventitious motives , seems on many occasions to operate without ...
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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