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... pride in multiplied editions , I have seen fome of my labours fixteen times reprinted , and claimed by different parents as their own . I have feen them flourished at the beginning with praise , and figned at the end with the names of ...
... pride in multiplied editions , I have seen fome of my labours fixteen times reprinted , and claimed by different parents as their own . I have feen them flourished at the beginning with praise , and figned at the end with the names of ...
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... pride in the great is hateful ; in the wife it is ridiculous : but beggarly pride is a ratio- nal vanity , which I have been taught to applaud and excufe . 1 ESSAY ESSAY VI Generofity . Juftice . Mifplaced Virtues of Godinot E S * SA Y S.
... pride in the great is hateful ; in the wife it is ridiculous : but beggarly pride is a ratio- nal vanity , which I have been taught to applaud and excufe . 1 ESSAY ESSAY VI Generofity . Juftice . Mifplaced Virtues of Godinot E S * SA Y S.
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... pride and refentment . If you must resent in- juries at all , at least fupprefs your indignation till you become rich , and then flow away . The re- fentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless infect to fting ; it may get ...
... pride and refentment . If you must resent in- juries at all , at least fupprefs your indignation till you become rich , and then flow away . The re- fentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless infect to fting ; it may get ...
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... pride ,. and the envy of the fpectator ; what they built was for convenience , and not for fhow . “ At " leaft , then , " faid Afem , " they have neither " architects , painters , or ftatuaries , in their fo- 61 . ciety ; but these are ...
... pride ,. and the envy of the fpectator ; what they built was for convenience , and not for fhow . “ At " leaft , then , " faid Afem , " they have neither " architects , painters , or ftatuaries , in their fo- 61 . ciety ; but these are ...
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... pride , nor hardened by prejudice ; neither wedded to one par- ticular fyftem , nor inftructed only in one particular fcience : neither wholly a botanist , nor quite an antiquarian . His mind fhould be tinctured with miscellaneous ...
... pride , nor hardened by prejudice ; neither wedded to one par- ticular fyftem , nor inftructed only in one particular fcience : neither wholly a botanist , nor quite an antiquarian . His mind fhould be tinctured with miscellaneous ...
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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.