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... most defire to please may forsake me . My bookfeller , in this dilemma , perceiving my embarraffment , inftantly offered his affiftance and advice : " You must know , Sir , " fays he , " that the republic of letters is at prefont ...
... most defire to please may forsake me . My bookfeller , in this dilemma , perceiving my embarraffment , inftantly offered his affiftance and advice : " You must know , Sir , " fays he , " that the republic of letters is at prefont ...
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... most fubtle reafoner of all the Lyce ther , the moft eloquent speaker in the acad Mutual admiration foon begot a friends fortunes were nearly equal , and they wer the two most celebrated cities in the wor cander was of Athens ...
... most fubtle reafoner of all the Lyce ther , the moft eloquent speaker in the acad Mutual admiration foon begot a friends fortunes were nearly equal , and they wer the two most celebrated cities in the wor cander was of Athens ...
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... most awkward efforts of ruftic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest ftretch of human wit , and questions and com , mands the most rational way of spending the even- ing . Happy , could fo charming an illufion ftill continue ! I ...
... most awkward efforts of ruftic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest ftretch of human wit , and questions and com , mands the most rational way of spending the even- ing . Happy , could fo charming an illufion ftill continue ! I ...
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... most calamitous events , either to themselves or others , can bring no other affliction ; the whole world is to them a theatre , on which comedies only are acted . All the buftle of heroifm , or the rants of ambition , ferve only to ...
... most calamitous events , either to themselves or others , can bring no other affliction ; the whole world is to them a theatre , on which comedies only are acted . All the buftle of heroifm , or the rants of ambition , ferve only to ...
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... most melancholy of our lives : never was fo much noise so quickly quelled , as by this short but pathetic oration of our landlord . Drank out ! was echoed in a tone of dif- content round the table . Drank out already ! that was * s very ...
... most melancholy of our lives : never was fo much noise so quickly quelled , as by this short but pathetic oration of our landlord . Drank out ! was echoed in a tone of dif- content round the table . Drank out already ! that was * s very ...
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Page 170 - Frenchmen : we had no arms ; but one Englishman is able to beat five French at any time : so we went down to the door, where both the sentries were posted, and rushing upon them, seized their arms in a moment, and knocked them down. From thence, nine of us ran together to the quay...
Page xi - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.