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... nature , to offer at fome pert fallies now and then , by way of flourish , upon the amiable enchantrefs , and unfortunately ftum- bles upon that mungrel mifcreated ( to speak in • Miltonic ) kind of wit , vulgarly termed the Pun . It ...
... nature , to offer at fome pert fallies now and then , by way of flourish , upon the amiable enchantrefs , and unfortunately ftum- bles upon that mungrel mifcreated ( to speak in • Miltonic ) kind of wit , vulgarly termed the Pun . It ...
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... nature , but has fomething in it more pleafing and agreeable than what can be met with in fuch an indolent happiness , fuch an indifference to mankind as that in which the Stoics placed their wisdom . As love is the most delightful ...
... nature , but has fomething in it more pleafing and agreeable than what can be met with in fuch an indolent happiness , fuch an indifference to mankind as that in which the Stoics placed their wisdom . As love is the most delightful ...
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... natural eloquence be- longing to it , and breaks out in more moving fen- timents than can be fupplied by the finest imagina- tion . Nature on this occafion dictates a thoufand paffionate things which cannot be supplied by art . It is ...
... natural eloquence be- longing to it , and breaks out in more moving fen- timents than can be fupplied by the finest imagina- tion . Nature on this occafion dictates a thoufand paffionate things which cannot be supplied by art . It is ...
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... nature : and fuch we may esteem all thofe in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourselves . We fhould always act with great cautiousness and circumfpection in points where it is not impoffible that we ...
... nature : and fuch we may esteem all thofe in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourselves . We fhould always act with great cautiousness and circumfpection in points where it is not impoffible that we ...
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... nature . I met with very little variation in the politics be- tween Charing - Cross and Covent - Garden . And up- on my going into Will's , I found their discourse was gone off from the death of the French King to that of Monfieur ...
... nature . I met with very little variation in the politics be- tween Charing - Cross and Covent - Garden . And up- on my going into Will's , I found their discourse was gone off from the death of the French King to that of Monfieur ...
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