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Pagina 2
... points of life : I mean , in that generous disregard of popular opinion which you shewed some years ago , when you chose for your wife an obscure young woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient family , but has certainly as ...
... points of life : I mean , in that generous disregard of popular opinion which you shewed some years ago , when you chose for your wife an obscure young woman , who doth not indeed pretend to an ancient family , but has certainly as ...
Pagina 4
... by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and confusion ; and either the turbulence of the times , or the satiety of the readers , put a stop ...
... by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and confusion ; and either the turbulence of the times , or the satiety of the readers , put a stop ...
Pagina 10
They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civilized people , because they speak one thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falsehood politeness .
They call thee and thy subjects barbarians , because we speak what we mean ; and account themselves a civilized people , because they speak one thing and mean another : truth they call barbarity , and falsehood politeness .
Pagina 24
By this means they are acquainted with all the widow - hunters about town , who often afford them great diversion . There is an honest Irish gentleman , it seems , who knows nothing of this society , but at different times has made love ...
By this means they are acquainted with all the widow - hunters about town , who often afford them great diversion . There is an honest Irish gentleman , it seems , who knows nothing of this society , but at different times has made love ...
Pagina 27
I cannot here forbear mentioning a tribe of egotists , for whom I have always had a mortal aversion , I mean the authors of memoirs , who are never mentioned in any works but their own , and who raise all their productions out of this ...
I cannot here forbear mentioning a tribe of egotists , for whom I have always had a mortal aversion , I mean the authors of memoirs , who are never mentioned in any works but their own , and who raise all their productions out of this ...
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