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Pagina xv
Of his habits , or external manners , nothing is fo often mentioned as that timorous or fullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele mentions with great tenderness , " that remarkable bafhfulness ...
Of his habits , or external manners , nothing is fo often mentioned as that timorous or fullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele mentions with great tenderness , " that remarkable bafhfulness ...
Pagina xviii
He has diffipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice , and eafinefs of manners with laxity of principles . He has restored virtue to its dignity , and taught innocence not to be ashamed .
He has diffipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice , and eafinefs of manners with laxity of principles . He has restored virtue to its dignity , and taught innocence not to be ashamed .
Pagina xix
... and draws the principles of invention from difpofitions inherent in the mind of man , with skill and elegance , fuch as his contemners will not eafily attain . As a defcriber of life and manners , he must be allowed allowed to ftand ...
... and draws the principles of invention from difpofitions inherent in the mind of man , with skill and elegance , fuch as his contemners will not eafily attain . As a defcriber of life and manners , he must be allowed allowed to ftand ...
Pagina xxv
... of your great humanity and complacency of manners , and of the furprizing influence which is peculiar to You , in making every one , who converfes with your Lordfhip , prefer you to himself , without thinking the lefs meanly of his ...
... of your great humanity and complacency of manners , and of the furprizing influence which is peculiar to You , in making every one , who converfes with your Lordfhip , prefer you to himself , without thinking the lefs meanly of his ...
Pagina 5
He is a gentleman that is very fingular in his behaviour , but his fingularities proceed from his good fenfe , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the world is in the wrong .
He is a gentleman that is very fingular in his behaviour , but his fingularities proceed from his good fenfe , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the world is in the wrong .
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