The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... mind . He trusts his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ; it is the only promise which he will venture on its behalf . It may be gay without wit , and grave without depth , when its author is disposed to gaiety ...
... mind . He trusts his publication will be such as to risk nothing on this ground ; it is the only promise which he will venture on its behalf . It may be gay without wit , and grave without depth , when its author is disposed to gaiety ...
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... mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business . The Lounger feels for the family of the idle in all its branches , however distant their relation to that of which he owns himself ...
... mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business . The Lounger feels for the family of the idle in all its branches , however distant their relation to that of which he owns himself ...
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... minds , are not , perhaps , altogether exempted from it . Mr. Hume , in his History of England , expresses himself in the following terms : Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every ther OC- cupation , that ...
... minds , are not , perhaps , altogether exempted from it . Mr. Hume , in his History of England , expresses himself in the following terms : Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every ther OC- cupation , that ...
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... mind of Milton while employed in that humble service , it is not improbable , that if VOL . I. C ever he was led to estimate his own merit in 3 . 13 THE LOUNGER . The consequences of a town education society to the family of a country ...
... mind of Milton while employed in that humble service , it is not improbable , that if VOL . I. C ever he was led to estimate his own merit in 3 . 13 THE LOUNGER . The consequences of a town education society to the family of a country ...
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... minds of the 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 ...
... minds of the 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 ...
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