The Adviser: Or, The Moral and Literary Tribunal ...sold, 1803 |
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... shew to the world that I am wiser than I was before ? Though all this be true , and we all know that it requires a range of intellect , and a vigour of mind to dare to profit by advice ; yet what are your pretensions to superior wis ...
... shew to the world that I am wiser than I was before ? Though all this be true , and we all know that it requires a range of intellect , and a vigour of mind to dare to profit by advice ; yet what are your pretensions to superior wis ...
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... shew , by tracing risibility up through some of her gradations from the broad and coarse merriment of the unrefined peasant , to the hearty but cultivated laugh of the highly intellectualized philosopher , that the more a human being ...
... shew , by tracing risibility up through some of her gradations from the broad and coarse merriment of the unrefined peasant , to the hearty but cultivated laugh of the highly intellectualized philosopher , that the more a human being ...
Page 92
... shew the scar , remaining from a scalping which he underwent from the hands of this tyrant . The fact was this , the young gentleman , by some inadvertency , let his book slip out of his hands , and fall on the floor ; his amiable ...
... shew the scar , remaining from a scalping which he underwent from the hands of this tyrant . The fact was this , the young gentleman , by some inadvertency , let his book slip out of his hands , and fall on the floor ; his amiable ...
Page 98
... shews , in the strongest light , the wild generosity , the credulity , the want of discernment , of judgment , of pene- tration , the impetuosity of the collegians . Two months afterwards , one of our school- fellows , passing through ...
... shews , in the strongest light , the wild generosity , the credulity , the want of discernment , of judgment , of pene- tration , the impetuosity of the collegians . Two months afterwards , one of our school- fellows , passing through ...
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... shew the unli- censed barbarity of the brutes in a striking . point of view . A young gentleman from Berkshire , a junior in the seventh chamber , had , for some trivial reason , I forget what , incurred the displeasure of a præfect in ...
... shew the unli- censed barbarity of the brutes in a striking . point of view . A young gentleman from Berkshire , a junior in the seventh chamber , had , for some trivial reason , I forget what , incurred the displeasure of a præfect in ...
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