The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... readers with the history of those incidents in his life which have thrown him out of the number of the professionally busy ; some untoward circumstances in point of for- tune , and some feelings , perhaps blamable from their nicety ...
... readers with the history of those incidents in his life which have thrown him out of the number of the professionally busy ; some untoward circumstances in point of for- tune , and some feelings , perhaps blamable from their nicety ...
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... reading . A Lounger of the sort I could wish to be thought is one who , even amidst a certain intercourse with mankind , preserves a con- stant intimacy with himself ; it is not therefore to be wondered at , if he should sometimes , if ...
... reading . A Lounger of the sort I could wish to be thought is one who , even amidst a certain intercourse with mankind , preserves a con- stant intimacy with himself ; it is not therefore to be wondered at , if he should sometimes , if ...
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... reader with the intermediate gradations ) , every one will see the necessity of a nicer and more refined system of morality . The family of the social virtues , like the genealogical tree of an extensive ancestry , spreads with the ...
... reader with the intermediate gradations ) , every one will see the necessity of a nicer and more refined system of morality . The family of the social virtues , like the genealogical tree of an extensive ancestry , spreads with the ...
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... readers with pleasure . ' And he condemns Thu- cydides for his choice of the Peloponnesian war ; ' be- cause it was neither honourable nor prosperous , nor ever should have been engaged in , or at least should have been buried in ...
... readers with pleasure . ' And he condemns Thu- cydides for his choice of the Peloponnesian war ; ' be- cause it was neither honourable nor prosperous , nor ever should have been engaged in , or at least should have been buried in ...
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... reading the box list , to determine where we should endeavour to find a place , a lady of the colonel's acquaintance happening to come in , begged our acceptance of places in her box . We entered accordingly ; and I placed my old friend ...
... reading the box list , to determine where we should endeavour to find a place , a lady of the colonel's acquaintance happening to come in , begged our acceptance of places in her box . We entered accordingly ; and I placed my old friend ...
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