Flowers of Literature, for 1806: Or, Characteristic Sketches of Human Nature, and Modern Manners. To which are Added, a General View of Literature During that Period; Portraits and Biographical Notices of Eminent Literary, and Political Characters; with Notes, Historical, Critical, and ExplanatoryB. Crosby and Company, 1807 - 528 pages |
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... honours on the foundation of his own merit , in his great application and talent in business . A master of figures , no calculation was too intricate for him , and his address in parliament excited the attention of George II . whose ...
... honours on the foundation of his own merit , in his great application and talent in business . A master of figures , no calculation was too intricate for him , and his address in parliament excited the attention of George II . whose ...
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... honour , and it was extolled in all companies . At the death of the Marquis of Rockingham , Mr. Fox quitted the administration of which he had been a member only as long as that nobleman had taken the lead . He said what is honourable ...
... honour , and it was extolled in all companies . At the death of the Marquis of Rockingham , Mr. Fox quitted the administration of which he had been a member only as long as that nobleman had taken the lead . He said what is honourable ...
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... honoured both them and himself by his acceptance of it . An exalted mind will both oblige and be obliged , and he who withholds from the one , or contemns the other , is equally actuated by selfish principles . The attractions of ...
... honoured both them and himself by his acceptance of it . An exalted mind will both oblige and be obliged , and he who withholds from the one , or contemns the other , is equally actuated by selfish principles . The attractions of ...
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... honoured fabric , the Germanic constitution ; we have seen kingdoms , rudely torn , by the depopulating hand of insatiate ambition , from their rightful sovereigns ; and we have beheld the crowns of legitimate mo- narchs placed on the ...
... honoured fabric , the Germanic constitution ; we have seen kingdoms , rudely torn , by the depopulating hand of insatiate ambition , from their rightful sovereigns ; and we have beheld the crowns of legitimate mo- narchs placed on the ...
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... honour of his child . Miss Hamilton's Letters to the Daughter of a No- bleman are entitled to almost equal praise . A work , of the nature of Gambier's Introduction to the Study of Moral Evidence , had long been a de- sideratum in ...
... honour of his child . Miss Hamilton's Letters to the Daughter of a No- bleman are entitled to almost equal praise . A work , of the nature of Gambier's Introduction to the Study of Moral Evidence , had long been a de- sideratum in ...
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