The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 25 |
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... affections by which we are prompted to supply the wants of others . The end proposed by the busy , is various as their temper , constitution , ha- bits , and circumstances : but in the labour itself is the enjoyment , whether it be ...
... affections by which we are prompted to supply the wants of others . The end proposed by the busy , is various as their temper , constitution , ha- bits , and circumstances : but in the labour itself is the enjoyment , whether it be ...
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... affection and solicitude for the welfare of his daughter , the heiress of his dukedom ; and the awful solemnity of his character , as a skilful ma- gician ; are all along preserved with equal con- sistency , dignity , and decorum . One ...
... affection and solicitude for the welfare of his daughter , the heiress of his dukedom ; and the awful solemnity of his character , as a skilful ma- gician ; are all along preserved with equal con- sistency , dignity , and decorum . One ...
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... affection no object , to be successively forsaken after unresisted violation , and at last sink into the grave without having answered any nobler purpose , than sometimes to have grati- fied the caprice of a tyrant , whom they saw 72 N ...
... affection no object , to be successively forsaken after unresisted violation , and at last sink into the grave without having answered any nobler purpose , than sometimes to have grati- fied the caprice of a tyrant , whom they saw 72 N ...
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... affections he believed to have another object . He did not , therefore , take away the life of Nourassin for a crime , to which he himself had furnished the temptation ; but as some punishment was necessary as a sanction to the laws ...
... affections he believed to have another object . He did not , therefore , take away the life of Nourassin for a crime , to which he himself had furnished the temptation ; but as some punishment was necessary as a sanction to the laws ...
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... affection , to be with- out children is to be without care ; the time of youth is the time of vigour , and grey hairs are made venerable by piety . It will , therefore , never be a wise man's choice , either not to obtain existence , or ...
... affection , to be with- out children is to be without care ; the time of youth is the time of vigour , and grey hairs are made venerable by piety . It will , therefore , never be a wise man's choice , either not to obtain existence , or ...
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