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... thofe readers I 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 ...
... thofe readers I 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 ...
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... thofe men of learning , which avaricious go monopolized . In this city , and about this period , A Septimius were fellow - students together the most fubtle reafoner of all the Lyce ther , the moft eloquent speaker in the acad Mutual ...
... thofe men of learning , which avaricious go monopolized . In this city , and about this period , A Septimius were fellow - students together the most fubtle reafoner of all the Lyce ther , the moft eloquent speaker in the acad Mutual ...
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... thofe happy days are never to return . In that retreat , all nature feemed capable of afford ing pleasure . I then made no refinements on hap-- piness , but could be pleased with the most awkward efforts of ruftic mirth ; thought cross ...
... thofe happy days are never to return . In that retreat , all nature feemed capable of afford ing pleasure . I then made no refinements on hap-- piness , but could be pleased with the most awkward efforts of ruftic mirth ; thought cross ...
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... thofe good - natured creatures to do no harm to any but themselves . fell into any mifery , he ufually called it If his head was broke by a chairman , o picked by a sharper , he comforted him tating the Hibernian dialect of the one ...
... thofe good - natured creatures to do no harm to any but themselves . fell into any mifery , he ufually called it If his head was broke by a chairman , o picked by a sharper , he comforted him tating the Hibernian dialect of the one ...
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... thofe duties to which the laws of fociety can oblige us . This , I allow , is fometimes the import of the word : and in this fenfe , juftice is diftinguished from equity : but there is a juftice ftill more extenfive , and which can be ...
... thofe duties to which the laws of fociety can oblige us . This , I allow , is fometimes the import of the word : and in this fenfe , juftice is diftinguished from equity : but there is a juftice ftill more extenfive , and which can be ...
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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.