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Page iii
... observation 2. Importance of the duty of manners 3. The vanity of skill in what we do not know , and the pedantry of valuing ourselves on those branches of know- ledge which we possess • 4. The author becomes acquainted with Col ...
... observation 2. Importance of the duty of manners 3. The vanity of skill in what we do not know , and the pedantry of valuing ourselves on those branches of know- ledge which we possess • 4. The author becomes acquainted with Col ...
Page vii
... Observations on comedy 50. The same subject continued - Moral ef- fects of comedy · · 51. Senex on our neglect of the improvement and of the progress of time - Proposal by Memory Modish for a new sort of memorandum - book of things to ...
... Observations on comedy 50. The same subject continued - Moral ef- fects of comedy · · 51. Senex on our neglect of the improvement and of the progress of time - Proposal by Memory Modish for a new sort of memorandum - book of things to ...
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... observed for myself ; and , like him too , enjoyed my observa- tion the more that it was secret and unsuspected . If this resemblance should convey some idea of trea- chery , of advantage over those with whom I asso- ciated , let it be ...
... observed for myself ; and , like him too , enjoyed my observa- tion the more that it was secret and unsuspected . If this resemblance should convey some idea of trea- chery , of advantage over those with whom I asso- ciated , let it be ...
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... observation , that men are more desirous to be thought to possess talents and qualities to which in truth they have no pretensions , than those in which they excel in an eminent degree . Of this Cicero was in ancient times a remarkable ...
... observation , that men are more desirous to be thought to possess talents and qualities to which in truth they have no pretensions , than those in which they excel in an eminent degree . Of this Cicero was in ancient times a remarkable ...
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... observed to be a full one . " ' Why , yes , ' said the colonel , here is crowd enough , and to spare ; and yet your ladies seem to have been at a loss for partners . I suppose the greatest part of the men , or rather boys , whom I see ...
... observed to be a full one . " ' Why , yes , ' said the colonel , here is crowd enough , and to spare ; and yet your ladies seem to have been at a loss for partners . I suppose the greatest part of the men , or rather boys , whom I see ...
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