The British Essayists: RamblerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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Page 59
... contempt for which it is not easy to find a name , which vanish to nothing in an attempt to de- scribe them , and yet may , by continual repetition , make day pass after day in sorrow and in terror . Phrases of cursory compliment and ...
... contempt for which it is not easy to find a name , which vanish to nothing in an attempt to de- scribe them , and yet may , by continual repetition , make day pass after day in sorrow and in terror . Phrases of cursory compliment and ...
Page 167
... contempt and indignation than that which boasts of negligence and hurry . For who can bear with patience the writer who claims such superiority to the rest of his species as to imagine that mankind are at leisure for attention to his ...
... contempt and indignation than that which boasts of negligence and hurry . For who can bear with patience the writer who claims such superiority to the rest of his species as to imagine that mankind are at leisure for attention to his ...
Page 272
... contempt of the com- mercial dialect , and my impatience to be selling stock . 66 My condition was soon known , and I was no longer admitted by the father of Flavilla . I repeated the protestations of regard , which had been for- merly ...
... contempt of the com- mercial dialect , and my impatience to be selling stock . 66 My condition was soon known , and I was no longer admitted by the father of Flavilla . I repeated the protestations of regard , which had been for- merly ...
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the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 3 |
the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 185 |
Anningait and Ajut a Greenland History | 186 |
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