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... heart with instantaneous jollity or sorrow , and vary our disposition as he changed his scenes . Perhaps the effect even of Shakspeare's po- etry might have been yet greater , had he not coun- teracted himself ; and we might have been ...
... heart with instantaneous jollity or sorrow , and vary our disposition as he changed his scenes . Perhaps the effect even of Shakspeare's po- etry might have been yet greater , had he not coun- teracted himself ; and we might have been ...
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... hearts open to his endearments . We every day see men of eminence followed with all the obsequiousness of dependence ... heart for want of op- portunity , and those vices that lurk unseen by the absence of temptation ; that when we find ...
... hearts open to his endearments . We every day see men of eminence followed with all the obsequiousness of dependence ... heart for want of op- portunity , and those vices that lurk unseen by the absence of temptation ; that when we find ...
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... heart , " Many of these despicable wretches does my present acquaintance with infamy and wickedness enable me to number among the heroes of debau- chery . Reptiles whom their own servants would have despised , had they not been their ...
... heart , " Many of these despicable wretches does my present acquaintance with infamy and wickedness enable me to number among the heroes of debau- chery . Reptiles whom their own servants would have despised , had they not been their ...
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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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