The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... perhaps is less pardonable than the fault ; but it is the only one I can make with truth ; and I hope the author will receive it with candour . SIR , TO MR . FITZ - ADAM . If ever you take the trouble of looking into any of the public ...
... perhaps is less pardonable than the fault ; but it is the only one I can make with truth ; and I hope the author will receive it with candour . SIR , TO MR . FITZ - ADAM . If ever you take the trouble of looking into any of the public ...
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... entirely in town , but , on the contrary , to allow a few minutes every day to the keeping it up ; since a time may come , when perhaps they may like their company rather better than none at all D 3 146 . 29 THE WORLD .
... entirely in town , but , on the contrary , to allow a few minutes every day to the keeping it up ; since a time may come , when perhaps they may like their company rather better than none at all D 3 146 . 29 THE WORLD .
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... perhaps have restored , to a certain de- gree at least , their natural carnation ; but at worst , I will venture to assure them , that such of their lovers who know them again in that state of na- tive artless beauty , will rejoice to ...
... perhaps have restored , to a certain de- gree at least , their natural carnation ; but at worst , I will venture to assure them , that such of their lovers who know them again in that state of na- tive artless beauty , will rejoice to ...
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... perhaps without good - nature , if he has but good - sense . FLATTERY is the disgrace of GOOD - BREEDING , as brutality often is of truth and sincerity . GooD- BREEDING is the middle point between those two odious extremes . CEREMONY is ...
... perhaps without good - nature , if he has but good - sense . FLATTERY is the disgrace of GOOD - BREEDING , as brutality often is of truth and sincerity . GooD- BREEDING is the middle point between those two odious extremes . CEREMONY is ...
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... perhaps the seat of the most per- fect GOOD - BREEDING , though I really believe that it yields to none in hearty and sincere CIVILITY , as as far as CIVILITY is ( and to a certain degree it is ) an inferior moral duty of doing as one ...
... perhaps the seat of the most per- fect GOOD - BREEDING , though I really believe that it yields to none in hearty and sincere CIVILITY , as as far as CIVILITY is ( and to a certain degree it is ) an inferior moral duty of doing as one ...
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