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Arguments for the existence of sorcery in the present times - Enumeration of
various kinds of modern witchcraft 42. On the poems of Hamilton of Bangour Prof.
Richardson 43. The evils of a good neighbourhood Craig 44. Narrative of the ...
Arguments for the existence of sorcery in the present times - Enumeration of
various kinds of modern witchcraft 42. On the poems of Hamilton of Bangour Prof.
Richardson 43. The evils of a good neighbourhood Craig 44. Narrative of the ...
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There is however a kind of men , whom accident has thrown out of the business
of life , and whom temperament , if not virtue , keeps out of the dissipation of it ,
who hold a station of less destructive and more dignified indolence , whom the ...
There is however a kind of men , whom accident has thrown out of the business
of life , and whom temperament , if not virtue , keeps out of the dissipation of it ,
who hold a station of less destructive and more dignified indolence , whom the ...
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These little papers formed a kind of new society , which I could command at any
time , without stirring from my fire - side . It was , of all sorts of company , the most
fitted for a Lounger ; company in which he could be unaccommodating without ...
These little papers formed a kind of new society , which I could command at any
time , without stirring from my fire - side . It was , of all sorts of company , the most
fitted for a Lounger ; company in which he could be unaccommodating without ...
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Scient , Of the various kinds of literary composition there hardly any which has
been at all times more cultivated than that of HISTORY . A desire to recount
remarkable events , and a curiosity to hear the relation of them , are propensities
...
Scient , Of the various kinds of literary composition there hardly any which has
been at all times more cultivated than that of HISTORY . A desire to recount
remarkable events , and a curiosity to hear the relation of them , are propensities
...
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Historians therefore be divided into two kinds , according to the methods they
have followed , and the ends they have chiefly had in view in their composition .
The first class , and which is by far the most numerous , consists of those who
have ...
Historians therefore be divided into two kinds , according to the methods they
have followed , and the ends they have chiefly had in view in their composition .
The first class , and which is by far the most numerous , consists of those who
have ...
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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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