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Pagina vii
... speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how to comply . We wanted not books to teach us our more important duties , and to fet- tle opinions in philosophy or politics ; but an arbiter elegantiarum , a judge of propriety , was yet ...
... speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how to comply . We wanted not books to teach us our more important duties , and to fet- tle opinions in philosophy or politics ; but an arbiter elegantiarum , a judge of propriety , was yet ...
Pagina xv
... speaking of his own deficience in conversation , used to say of himself , that with respect to intellectual wealth , " he could draw " bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not " a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current ...
... speaking of his own deficience in conversation , used to say of himself , that with respect to intellectual wealth , " he could draw " bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not " a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current ...
Pagina xxiv
... . Your Lordship appears as great in your private life , as in the most important offices which you have borne . I would therefore rather choose to fpeak speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admit- xxiv DEDICATΙΟΝ .
... . Your Lordship appears as great in your private life , as in the most important offices which you have borne . I would therefore rather choose to fpeak speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admit- xxiv DEDICATΙΟΝ .
Pagina xxv
Joseph Addison. speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admit- ted into your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite parts of learning , of your great huma- nity and complacency of manners , and of the fur- prizing ...
Joseph Addison. speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admit- ted into your conversation , of your elegant taste in all the polite parts of learning , of your great huma- nity and complacency of manners , and of the fur- prizing ...
Pagina 9
... speak of himself and others . The fame frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agree- able to the company ; for he is never ...
... speak of himself and others . The fame frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agree- able to the company ; for he is never ...
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