The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... pleasures and rural contempla- tion - A visit of the author to the country dwelling of Col. Caustic Mackenzie • 32. Account of the colonel's family and occu- pation in the country - Sketch of the character of his sister 33. Relation of ...
... pleasures and rural contempla- tion - A visit of the author to the country dwelling of Col. Caustic Mackenzie • 32. Account of the colonel's family and occu- pation in the country - Sketch of the character of his sister 33. Relation of ...
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... pleasure and dissipation . Character and story of Flavillus Craig 36. Narrative of a country family raised to sudden affluence by the arrival of a son from India , and of the taxes to which the enjoyment of its wealth is subject ; in a ...
... pleasure and dissipation . Character and story of Flavillus Craig 36. Narrative of a country family raised to sudden affluence by the arrival of a son from India , and of the taxes to which the enjoyment of its wealth is subject ; in a ...
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... 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 business of life , and whom temperament , if not virtue , keeps out ...
... 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 business of life , and whom temperament , if not virtue , keeps out ...
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... pleasure , the man who does not warmly worship the deity of the place will be accounted a supernumerary by his votaries . balls and card - parties I have as frequently heard myself called a LOUNGER , as on ' Change or in courts of law ...
... pleasure , the man who does not warmly worship the deity of the place will be accounted a supernumerary by his votaries . balls and card - parties I have as frequently heard myself called a LOUNGER , as on ' Change or in courts of law ...
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... 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 greater part of historians ; and their aim of instruction ...
... 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 greater part of historians ; and their aim of instruction ...
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