The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... Souls - Petition of Job Chanticleer - Cruelty to Ani- mals ..... 135. Distinction between Ancient and Mo- dern Freethinkers - The latter how to be treated - Anecdote of a French Officer ........ 136. History of Tom Varnish - Petitioners ...
... Souls - Petition of Job Chanticleer - Cruelty to Ani- mals ..... 135. Distinction between Ancient and Mo- dern Freethinkers - The latter how to be treated - Anecdote of a French Officer ........ 136. History of Tom Varnish - Petitioners ...
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... soul doats on . I could gaze at her to the end of my being yet when I have done so , for some time past , I have found her eyes fixed on another . She is now two - and - twenty , in the full tyranny of her charms , which she once ...
... soul doats on . I could gaze at her to the end of my being yet when I have done so , for some time past , I have found her eyes fixed on another . She is now two - and - twenty , in the full tyranny of her charms , which she once ...
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... draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views . The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side . They cultivate the may natural grandeur of the soul , raise in her a 14 ' NO . 108 . TATLER .
... draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views . The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side . They cultivate the may natural grandeur of the soul , raise in her a 14 ' NO . 108 . TATLER .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. natural grandeur of the soul , raise in her a generous ambition , feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection , and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. natural grandeur of the soul , raise in her a generous ambition , feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection , and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious ...
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... soul of man , poesy seems to endow human nature with that which history denies ; and to give satisfaction to the mind , with at least the shadow of things , where the substance cannot be had . For if the matter be thoroughly considered ...
... soul of man , poesy seems to endow human nature with that which history denies ; and to give satisfaction to the mind , with at least the shadow of things , where the substance cannot be had . For if the matter be thoroughly considered ...
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