The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... turn Murmurer ; ' I can call the time past un- der my review , as far back as my experience will go , and comfort myself by the comparison of will 2 N ° 94 . THE OBSERVER . vite more peevish companions for the last hours ...
... turn Murmurer ; ' I can call the time past un- der my review , as far back as my experience will go , and comfort myself by the comparison of will 2 N ° 94 . THE OBSERVER . vite more peevish companions for the last hours ...
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... turn to the authors , who have delineated the manners of ages antecedent to my own , without being afhamed of my contemporaries , or entertaining a fuperior respect for their's . I cannot look back to any period of our own annals , of ...
... turn to the authors , who have delineated the manners of ages antecedent to my own , without being afhamed of my contemporaries , or entertaining a fuperior respect for their's . I cannot look back to any period of our own annals , of ...
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... turn for a time deftroyed that proper balance , in which it's ex- cellence confifts . In feudal times the aristocra- tic power preponderated , and the kingdom was torn to pieces with civil diftractions . From the acceffion of Henry the ...
... turn for a time deftroyed that proper balance , in which it's ex- cellence confifts . In feudal times the aristocra- tic power preponderated , and the kingdom was torn to pieces with civil diftractions . From the acceffion of Henry the ...
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... turns the fallen party without mercy , that the tranquillity we now enjoy , ( greater as I believe than in any time paft , but certainly as great ) is of itself fufficient to put the modern murmurer to filence . To fubftantiate my ...
... turns the fallen party without mercy , that the tranquillity we now enjoy , ( greater as I believe than in any time paft , but certainly as great ) is of itself fufficient to put the modern murmurer to filence . To fubftantiate my ...
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... turn to the time , when it was reputable to get drunk , and when the fine gentleman of the co- medy entertains his mistress with his feats over the bottle , and recommends himself to her good graces by fwearing , blustering , and ...
... turn to the time , when it was reputable to get drunk , and when the fine gentleman of the co- medy entertains his mistress with his feats over the bottle , and recommends himself to her good graces by fwearing , blustering , and ...
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