The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... say to all the world -This is my freehold ; the law defends my right : Touch it who dare ! -is furely as independant as any man within the rules of fociety can be , fo long as he encumbers himself by no exceedings of expence beyond the ...
... say to all the world -This is my freehold ; the law defends my right : Touch it who dare ! -is furely as independant as any man within the rules of fociety can be , fo long as he encumbers himself by no exceedings of expence beyond the ...
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... saying it consists in a happy discernment of times and seasons . Though this engaging talent cannot pofitively be called a virtue , yet it seems to be the result of many virtuous and refined endowments of the mind , which produces it ...
... saying it consists in a happy discernment of times and seasons . Though this engaging talent cannot pofitively be called a virtue , yet it seems to be the result of many virtuous and refined endowments of the mind , which produces it ...
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... say they have more elaborate means of ftaining carrotty eye- brows than with fimple foot , and cannot think of comparing a little harmless opal with their poisonous farrago of pastes , pomatums and pearl powders ; but I would have my ...
... say they have more elaborate means of ftaining carrotty eye- brows than with fimple foot , and cannot think of comparing a little harmless opal with their poisonous farrago of pastes , pomatums and pearl powders ; but I would have my ...
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... say to perfuade the inconfiderate that they exift upon the precarious fufferance of every moment , that pafles over them in fuc- ceffion ? how fhall I warn a giddy fool not to play his antick tricks and caper on the very ut- most edge ...
... say to perfuade the inconfiderate that they exift upon the precarious fufferance of every moment , that pafles over them in fuc- ceffion ? how fhall I warn a giddy fool not to play his antick tricks and caper on the very ut- most edge ...
Page 163
... say that he receives these words as a prophecy . Prophetic they are , and were meant to be by the poet , who in this ufe of his facred prophecy imitates the heathen oracles , on which feveral of their dramatic plots are conftructed , as ...
... say that he receives these words as a prophecy . Prophetic they are , and were meant to be by the poet , who in this ufe of his facred prophecy imitates the heathen oracles , on which feveral of their dramatic plots are conftructed , as ...
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