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Trifling circumstances often form the criterion of character - Judgment of a
company drawn from the different appearance of their hats Cullen 13. The
consequences of a town education and society to the family of a country
gentleman ; in a ...
Trifling circumstances often form the criterion of character - Judgment of a
company drawn from the different appearance of their hats Cullen 13. The
consequences of a town education and society to the family of a country
gentleman ; in a ...
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For that purpose it is perhaps better calculated than more laboured and more
extended compositions , from its diurnal or weekly appearance . The greater
virtues are always the same ; but many of the lesser duties of social intercourse
receive ...
For that purpose it is perhaps better calculated than more laboured and more
extended compositions , from its diurnal or weekly appearance . The greater
virtues are always the same ; but many of the lesser duties of social intercourse
receive ...
Page 10
... possessed of great knowledge in his profession , an acute reasoner , and a
powerful pleader . In external appearance nature has been less bountiful to
Camillus : his figure is mean and ungraceful ; and from his air and manner a
stranger ...
... possessed of great knowledge in his profession , an acute reasoner , and a
powerful pleader . In external appearance nature has been less bountiful to
Camillus : his figure is mean and ungraceful ; and from his air and manner a
stranger ...
Page 12
That question , I am persuaded , his gentle modesty hardly permitted him to
consider . 12 THE LOUNGER . 3 . Trifling circumstances often form criterion of
character-Judgment a company drawn from the different appearance of their hats
Cullen.
That question , I am persuaded , his gentle modesty hardly permitted him to
consider . 12 THE LOUNGER . 3 . Trifling circumstances often form criterion of
character-Judgment a company drawn from the different appearance of their hats
Cullen.
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... I am newly come from the country ; I shall keep a better countenance by and by
At that moment a lady and her party , for whose appearance the dancers were
waiting , were just entering the room , and seemed in a great hurry to get forward
.
... I am newly come from the country ; I shall keep a better countenance by and by
At that moment a lady and her party , for whose appearance the dancers were
waiting , were just entering the room , and seemed in a great hurry to get forward
.
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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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