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Some account of the late Mr. William Strahan 30. Letter from a member of the
Mirror Club , relating some particulars of that society • Abercromby 31. On rural
pleasures and rural contemplation - A visit of the author to the country dwelling of
Col.
Some account of the late Mr. William Strahan 30. Letter from a member of the
Mirror Club , relating some particulars of that society • Abercromby 31. On rural
pleasures and rural contemplation - A visit of the author to the country dwelling of
Col.
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Fallaciousness of that generosity and friendship which are supposed to reside in
the society of men of pleasure and dissipation . Character and story of Flavillus
Craig 36. Narrative of a country family raised to sudden affluence by the arrival of
...
Fallaciousness of that generosity and friendship which are supposed to reside in
the society of men of pleasure and dissipation . Character and story of Flavillus
Craig 36. Narrative of a country family raised to sudden affluence by the arrival of
...
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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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... 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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To drop the allegory : The truth is , that although to afford pleasure and to convey
instruction have been ever the professed ends of history , yet they have not
always been mingled in due proportion . The former has been the object of the ...
To drop the allegory : The truth is , that although to afford pleasure and to convey
instruction have been ever the professed ends of history , yet they have not
always been mingled in due proportion . The former has been the object of the ...
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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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