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Pagina 5
... character , can be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polifh human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatfoever may be either ufeful or ornamental to fociety . I KNOW that the ...
... character , can be the proper patron of a work , which endeavours to cultivate and polifh human life , by promoting virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatfoever may be either ufeful or ornamental to fociety . I KNOW that the ...
Pagina 11
... character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but fhew it . An infatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was any thing new or ftrange to be ...
... character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but fhew it . An infatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was any thing new or ftrange to be ...
Pagina 12
... character I intend to preferve in this paper . I HAVE given the reader juft fo much of my history and character , as to let him fee I am not altogether un- qualified for the bufinefs I have undertaken . As for other particulars in my ...
... character I intend to preferve in this paper . I HAVE given the reader juft fo much of my history and character , as to let him fee I am not altogether un- qualified for the bufinefs I have undertaken . As for other particulars in my ...
Pagina 18
... character , where women are not concerned , he is an honest worthy man . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of , as one of our company ; for he vifits us but feldom , but , when he does it , adds to every ...
... character , where women are not concerned , he is an honest worthy man . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of , as one of our company ; for he vifits us but feldom , but , when he does it , adds to every ...
Pagina 58
... character of a mild and peaceable man in his profeffion . If the former was too furious , this was too fheepish , for his part ; info- much , that after a fhort modeft walk upon the stage , he would fall at the first touch of Hydafpes ...
... character of a mild and peaceable man in his profeffion . If the former was too furious , this was too fheepish , for his part ; info- much , that after a fhort modeft walk upon the stage , he would fall at the first touch of Hydafpes ...
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