The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... pleasure I saw her take in my sufferings . I considered the distress she brought upon me the greatest that could befall a human creature ; at the same time that she did not inflict this upon one who was her enemy , one that had done her ...
... pleasure I saw her take in my sufferings . I considered the distress she brought upon me the greatest that could befall a human creature ; at the same time that she did not inflict this upon one who was her enemy , one that had done her ...
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... pleasure , and told me , He did not think it was possible for a man to live to the age I now am of , who in his thirtieth year had been tortured with that passion in its violence . For my part , ' said he , < I can neither eat , drink ...
... pleasure , and told me , He did not think it was possible for a man to live to the age I now am of , who in his thirtieth year had been tortured with that passion in its violence . For my part , ' said he , < I can neither eat , drink ...
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... pleasure in seeing its own figure turned to ridicule , and distorted into forms that raise horror and aversion ? There is something dis- ingenuous and immoral in the being able to bear such a sight . Men of elegant and noble minds are ...
... pleasure in seeing its own figure turned to ridicule , and distorted into forms that raise horror and aversion ? There is something dis- ingenuous and immoral in the being able to bear such a sight . Men of elegant and noble minds are ...
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... pleasure that I had done my duty , and furnished out a handsome execution . Going out of the court , I received a letter , in- forming me , that , in pursuance of the edict of justice in one of my late visions , all those of the fair ...
... pleasure that I had done my duty , and furnished out a handsome execution . Going out of the court , I received a letter , in- forming me , that , in pursuance of the edict of justice in one of my late visions , all those of the fair ...
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... pleasure in seeing great men thus fall into the rank of mankind , and entertain themselves with diversions and amusements that are agreeable to the very weakest of the species . I must frankly con- fess , that it is to me a beauty in ...
... pleasure in seeing great men thus fall into the rank of mankind , and entertain themselves with diversions and amusements that are agreeable to the very weakest of the species . I must frankly con- fess , that it is to me a beauty in ...
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