The British Essayists: TatlerAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... pretend to skill in the mazes of it ; but fixes his thoughts upon one certainty , that he shall soon be out of it . And we may ask very boldly , what can be a more sure consolation than to have an hope in death ? When men are arrived at ...
... pretend to skill in the mazes of it ; but fixes his thoughts upon one certainty , that he shall soon be out of it . And we may ask very boldly , what can be a more sure consolation than to have an hope in death ? When men are arrived at ...
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... pretended to than that of devotion , there are , perhaps , fewer successful impostors in this kind than any other . There is something so natively great and good in a person that is truly devout , that an aukward man may as well pretend ...
... pretended to than that of devotion , there are , perhaps , fewer successful impostors in this kind than any other . There is something so natively great and good in a person that is truly devout , that an aukward man may as well pretend ...
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... pretend to chouse one another , they make but very aukward rogues ; and their dis- like to each other is seldom so well dissembled , but it is suspected . When once it is so , it had as good be professed . A man who dissembles well must ...
... pretend to chouse one another , they make but very aukward rogues ; and their dis- like to each other is seldom so well dissembled , but it is suspected . When once it is so , it had as good be professed . A man who dissembles well must ...
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... pretend to be dissemblers without this lesson . They are so reservedly complaisant until they have learned to resign their natural passions , that all the steps they make towards gaining those , whom they would be well with , are but so ...
... pretend to be dissemblers without this lesson . They are so reservedly complaisant until they have learned to resign their natural passions , that all the steps they make towards gaining those , whom they would be well with , are but so ...
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... pretend to take satisfaction in sprightly mirth and high jollity , there is no great pleasure in any company where the basis of the society is not mu- tual good will . When this is in the room , every trifling circumstance , the most ...
... pretend to take satisfaction in sprightly mirth and high jollity , there is no great pleasure in any company where the basis of the society is not mu- tual good will . When this is in the room , every trifling circumstance , the most ...
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