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He will often be dissipated without amusement , and intemperate without
pleasure , merely because dissipation is preferable to vacancy , and
intemperance to listlessness . There is however a kind of men , whom accident
has thrown out of the ...
He will often be dissipated without amusement , and intemperate without
pleasure , merely because dissipation is preferable to vacancy , and
intemperance to listlessness . There is however a kind of men , whom accident
has thrown out of the ...
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own thoughts renders independent of vulgar society , and the vigour and variety
of whose imagination free from the necessity of resorting to frivolous or
censurable amusements . Among the first sort , the transition is easy from the
yawn of ...
own thoughts renders independent of vulgar society , and the vigour and variety
of whose imagination free from the necessity of resorting to frivolous or
censurable amusements . Among the first sort , the transition is easy from the
yawn of ...
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... if he frequents their places of meeting without having any business congenial
to those places . The same superiority will be assumed by the professedly idle ,
as by the professionally busy . In the haunts of amusement and of pleasure , the ...
... if he frequents their places of meeting without having any business congenial
to those places . The same superiority will be assumed by the professedly idle ,
as by the professionally busy . In the haunts of amusement and of pleasure , the ...
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It may be gay without wit , and grave without depth , when its author is disposed
to gaiety or to thought ; but while it endeavours to afford some little amusement by
the one , or some little instruction by the other , it will at least be harmless in both
...
It may be gay without wit , and grave without depth , when its author is disposed
to gaiety or to thought ; but while it endeavours to afford some little amusement by
the one , or some little instruction by the other , it will at least be harmless in both
...
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In me , however , it is an indolent , quiet sort of indulgence , which , if it affords
some amusement to myself , does not disturb that of any other body . At an
assembly at which I happened to be present THE LOUNGER . 15 Description of a
new ...
In me , however , it is an indolent , quiet sort of indulgence , which , if it affords
some amusement to myself , does not disturb that of any other body . At an
assembly at which I happened to be present THE LOUNGER . 15 Description of a
new ...
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| Title | The British Essayists: Lounger Volume 30 of The British Essayists, James Ferguson Volume 30 of The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Editor | James Ferguson |
| Contributor | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2006 |
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