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There is a censure , indeed , and a suffrage , which no man can escape , to which one of his disposition is peculiarly liable , I mean that of his own mind . He trusts his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ...
There is a censure , indeed , and a suffrage , which no man can escape , to which one of his disposition is peculiarly liable , I mean that of his own mind . He trusts his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ...
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... though he can live on air , cannot subsist in vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business .
... though he can live on air , cannot subsist in vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business .
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But if we may guess at what passed in the mind of Milton while employed in that humble service , it is not improbable , that if VOL , I. Ñ ever he was led to estimate his own merit in 3 . THE LOUNGER . 13.
But if we may guess at what passed in the mind of Milton while employed in that humble service , it is not improbable , that if VOL , I. Ñ ever he was led to estimate his own merit in 3 . THE LOUNGER . 13.
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Seeing a play , or indeed any thing else , won't do at my time of life , either alone , or in company not quite to one's mind . ' Tis like drinking a bottle of claret ; the liquor is something ; but nine - tenths of the bargain is in ...
Seeing a play , or indeed any thing else , won't do at my time of life , either alone , or in company not quite to one's mind . ' Tis like drinking a bottle of claret ; the liquor is something ; but nine - tenths of the bargain is in ...
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in our estimate of such a character is apt to strike the mind with the most forcible conviction of our own unworthiness . Memory is industrious to torment us with the recollection of numberless instances of merit we have overlooked ...
in our estimate of such a character is apt to strike the mind with the most forcible conviction of our own unworthiness . Memory is industrious to torment us with the recollection of numberless instances of merit we have overlooked ...
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| Title | The British Essayists: The Lounger Volume 30 of The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Contributor | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2006 |
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