The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Page 13
... consider which of her last year's clothes shall be seen again , and to anticipate the raptures of a new suit ; the day and the night are now filled with occupation ; the laces , which were too fine to be worn among rusticks , are taken ...
... consider which of her last year's clothes shall be seen again , and to anticipate the raptures of a new suit ; the day and the night are now filled with occupation ; the laces , which were too fine to be worn among rusticks , are taken ...
Page 27
... considers it as a point of honour to say again what he has once said , and wonders how any man , that has been known to alter his opinion , can look his neighbours in the face . Bob is the most formidable disputant of the whole company ...
... considers it as a point of honour to say again what he has once said , and wonders how any man , that has been known to alter his opinion , can look his neighbours in the face . Bob is the most formidable disputant of the whole company ...
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... consider a bulky writer who engrossed a year , and a swarm of pamphleteers who stole each an hour , as equal wasters of human life , and would make no other difference between them , than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts ...
... consider a bulky writer who engrossed a year , and a swarm of pamphleteers who stole each an hour , as equal wasters of human life , and would make no other difference between them , than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts ...
Page 39
... consider that human knowledge is very narrow , that national manners are formed by chance , that uncommon conjunctures of causes pro- duce rare effects , or that what is impossible at one time or place may yet happen in another . It is ...
... consider that human knowledge is very narrow , that national manners are formed by chance , that uncommon conjunctures of causes pro- duce rare effects , or that what is impossible at one time or place may yet happen in another . It is ...
Page 42
... consider men only as beings that are to lose their money , they might live together without any wish for the offi- ciousness of gallantry or the delights of diversified conversation . But as nothing would hold them to- gether but the ...
... consider men only as beings that are to lose their money , they might live together without any wish for the offi- ciousness of gallantry or the delights of diversified conversation . But as nothing would hold them to- gether but the ...
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