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Pagina xvi
... thing in the history of his life which does more honor to his shrewdness and sa- gacity . The copyist , indeed , did not possess the gifted hand of his master , - “ Museo contingens cuncta lepore ; " but such is the effect of his plain ...
... thing in the history of his life which does more honor to his shrewdness and sa- gacity . The copyist , indeed , did not possess the gifted hand of his master , - “ Museo contingens cuncta lepore ; " but such is the effect of his plain ...
Pagina 1
... - curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full * Mr. Tickell says , it was projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele , which comes to the same thing . - H . I སྣཌ་ ག་ ར 1 with other particulars of the like.
... - curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full * Mr. Tickell says , it was projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele , which comes to the same thing . - H . I སྣཌ་ ག་ ར 1 with other particulars of the like.
Pagina 8
... thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of communicating them to the public . They would indeed ...
... thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of communicating them to the public . They would indeed ...
Pagina 20
... thing " approaching that might hurt them . She appeared , indeed , infinitely timorous in all her behaviour ; and , whether it was from the delicacy of her constitution , or that she was troubled with vapours , as I was afterwards told ...
... thing " approaching that might hurt them . She appeared , indeed , infinitely timorous in all her behaviour ; and , whether it was from the delicacy of her constitution , or that she was troubled with vapours , as I was afterwards told ...
Pagina 31
... thing than can befal me . I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind ...
... thing than can befal me . I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind ...
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Pagina 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
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Pagina 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.