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Pagina 60
... town . - Warton . THE first and most obvious reflections which arise in a man who changes the city for the country , are upon the different manners of the people whom he meets with in those two different scenes of life . By manners I do ...
... town . - Warton . THE first and most obvious reflections which arise in a man who changes the city for the country , are upon the different manners of the people whom he meets with in those two different scenes of life . By manners I do ...
Pagina 61
... town has dropped them , and are nearer to the first stage of nature , than to those refinements which formerly reigned in the court , and still prevail in the country . One may now know a man that never conversed in the world by his ...
... town has dropped them , and are nearer to the first stage of nature , than to those refinements which formerly reigned in the court , and still prevail in the country . One may now know a man that never conversed in the world by his ...
Pagina 62
... town , and particularly those who have been polished in France , make use of the most coarse uncivilized words in our language , and utter themselves often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear . This infamous piece of good ...
... town , and particularly those who have been polished in France , make use of the most coarse uncivilized words in our language , and utter themselves often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear . This infamous piece of good ...
Pagina 64
... town where he lives that he has not sued at a quarter- sessions . The rogue had once the impudence to go to law with the Widow . His head is full of costs , damages , .and ejectments : he plagued a couple of honest gentlemen so long 10 ...
... town where he lives that he has not sued at a quarter- sessions . The rogue had once the impudence to go to law with the Widow . His head is full of costs , damages , .and ejectments : he plagued a couple of honest gentlemen so long 10 ...
Pagina 69
... and his lady , who do not live many miles from Sir Roger . The wife is an old coquette , that is always hankering after the diversions of the town ; the husband , a morose rustic , that frowns and DIFFERENCE OF TEMPERS IN THE SEXES . 69.
... and his lady , who do not live many miles from Sir Roger . The wife is an old coquette , that is always hankering after the diversions of the town ; the husband , a morose rustic , that frowns and DIFFERENCE OF TEMPERS IN THE SEXES . 69.
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