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This it was not long before I experienced : but of a temper not easily offended , I
only smiled at perceiving it ; and it rather soothed my indolence , than provoked
my spleen , when I found that I had acquired a denomination more innocent than
...
This it was not long before I experienced : but of a temper not easily offended , I
only smiled at perceiving it ; and it rather soothed my indolence , than provoked
my spleen , when I found that I had acquired a denomination more innocent than
...
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Of generic names , indeed , people are not always very scrupulous in the
application , and therefore I could easily pardon those who ranked me under the
class of men which the title of Lounger distinguishes . He whose walks are
pointed ...
Of generic names , indeed , people are not always very scrupulous in the
application , and therefore I could easily pardon those who ranked me under the
class of men which the title of Lounger distinguishes . He whose walks are
pointed ...
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... and cannot easily be punished in the breach , or rewarded in the observance :
and yet their observance forms , amidst the refinements of modern society , an
important part of our own happiness , and of that regard we owe to the happiness
...
... and cannot easily be punished in the breach , or rewarded in the observance :
and yet their observance forms , amidst the refinements of modern society , an
important part of our own happiness , and of that regard we owe to the happiness
...
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... and always affords some apology for the neglect of them . But for such neglect
the man of no profession cannot so easily be excused , who has neither the hurry
of business to occupy his time , nor its embarrassments to distract his thought .
... and always affords some apology for the neglect of them . But for such neglect
the man of no profession cannot so easily be excused , who has neither the hurry
of business to occupy his time , nor its embarrassments to distract his thought .
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I know , ' said he , you are in the right ; but one don't easily get rid of first
impressions ; I can't make you conceive what a play was to me some tifty years
ago , with what feelings I heard the last music begin , nor how my heart beat
when it ...
I know , ' said he , you are in the right ; but one don't easily get rid of first
impressions ; I can't make you conceive what a play was to me some tifty years
ago , with what feelings I heard the last music begin , nor how my heart beat
when it ...
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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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