The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... situation and circumstances of the present age have bestowed on history its most signal improvement , and have given it a form before unknown . The many and various revolutions which an experience of more than three thousand years has ...
... situation and circumstances of the present age have bestowed on history its most signal improvement , and have given it a form before unknown . The many and various revolutions which an experience of more than three thousand years has ...
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... I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are times and circumstances which lay it open before him : there are situations 7 . 35 THE LOUNGER .
... I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are times and circumstances which lay it open before him : there are situations 7 . 35 THE LOUNGER .
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which lay it open before him : there are situations which dissipate for a while that mist of errors which hides him from his own eyes , and force an acknow- ledgment of many defections from virtue , many a de- sertion to vice , which he ...
which lay it open before him : there are situations which dissipate for a while that mist of errors which hides him from his own eyes , and force an acknow- ledgment of many defections from virtue , many a de- sertion to vice , which he ...
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... situation in which she was now placed brought to my view many points of excellence which were before undiscovered . Must I own to my shame , that the possession of this treasure diminished its value ? Fool that I was ! I knew not my own ...
... situation in which she was now placed brought to my view many points of excellence which were before undiscovered . Must I own to my shame , that the possession of this treasure diminished its value ? Fool that I was ! I knew not my own ...
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... situation , to be busy . I suffer daily so much from the intrusion of a set of female Loungers ( forgive me for using your title ) , that it has prompted me to address myself to you , in hopes that you will , in some of your future ...
... situation , to be busy . I suffer daily so much from the intrusion of a set of female Loungers ( forgive me for using your title ) , that it has prompted me to address myself to you , in hopes that you will , in some of your future ...
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