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Pagina 15
... fuch perfons are very acceptable to a young author , for they defire no more in any thing but to be new to be agreeable . If I found confolation among fuch , I was as much difquieted by the incapacity of others . Thefe are mortals who ...
... fuch perfons are very acceptable to a young author , for they defire no more in any thing but to be new to be agreeable . If I found confolation among fuch , I was as much difquieted by the incapacity of others . Thefe are mortals who ...
Pagina 16
... fuch an extravagance , that the few who are intimate with me , anfwer my fmiles with con- current fentences , and argue to the very point I flaked my head at , without my fpeaking . Will Honeycomb was very entertaining the other night ...
... fuch an extravagance , that the few who are intimate with me , anfwer my fmiles with con- current fentences , and argue to the very point I flaked my head at , without my fpeaking . Will Honeycomb was very entertaining the other night ...
Pagina 21
... fuch a florid form of words , and fuch tedious circumlocutions , as are ufed by none but pedants in our own country ; and at the fame time fill their writings with fuch poor imagina- tions and conceits , as our youths are ashamed of be ...
... fuch a florid form of words , and fuch tedious circumlocutions , as are ufed by none but pedants in our own country ; and at the fame time fill their writings with fuch poor imagina- tions and conceits , as our youths are ashamed of be ...
Pagina 23
... fuch quick admo- nitions as their own fouls give them , and blunting the fine edge of their minds in fuch a manner , that they are no more fhocked at vice and folly than men of flower capacities . There is no greater monfter in being ...
... fuch quick admo- nitions as their own fouls give them , and blunting the fine edge of their minds in fuch a manner , that they are no more fhocked at vice and folly than men of flower capacities . There is no greater monfter in being ...
Pagina 29
... fuch groundlefs prodigies and predictions . For as it is the chief concern of wife men to retrench the evils of life by the reafonings of philofophy , it is the employ- ment of fools to multiply thein by the fentiments of fu- perftition ...
... fuch groundlefs prodigies and predictions . For as it is the chief concern of wife men to retrench the evils of life by the reafonings of philofophy , it is the employ- ment of fools to multiply thein by the fentiments of fu- perftition ...
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