The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... society , which I could command at any time , without stirring from my fire - side . It was , of all sorts of company , the most fitted for a Lounger ; company in which he could be unaccommodating without offence , and inattentive ...
... society , which I could command at any time , without stirring from my fire - side . It was , of all sorts of company , the most fitted for a Lounger ; company in which he could be unaccommodating without offence , and inattentive ...
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... society , a very simple code of morality and of rectitude was all that was necessary . To control the violence of the stronger passions , to prescribe the rules of distributive justice , and to inculcate the duties of active humanity ...
... society , a very simple code of morality and of rectitude was all that was necessary . To control the violence of the stronger passions , to prescribe the rules of distributive justice , and to inculcate the duties of active humanity ...
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... society , an important part of our own happiness , and of that regard we owe to the happiness of others . To practise them is somewhat difficult ; to teach them is still more so : yet ' tis an art which , though difficult , does not ...
... society , an important part of our own happiness , and of that regard we owe to the happiness of others . To practise them is somewhat difficult ; to teach them is still more so : yet ' tis an art which , though difficult , does not ...
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... society of beaux for a curious collection of butterflies . But while people are thus ambitious of being thought to possess talents and qualities to which they have no pretension , it does not thence follow , that they estimate at too ...
... society of beaux for a curious collection of butterflies . But while people are thus ambitious of being thought to possess talents and qualities to which they have no pretension , it does not thence follow , that they estimate at too ...
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... 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 gen- Anonymous.
... 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 gen- Anonymous.
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