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Page 7
... sometimes execrated by the public ? Their elevation , if they have been unworthy of it , is so far from procuring them true honour , that it only renders their insigni- ficance , perhaps their infamy , more conspi cuous . By drawing ...
... sometimes execrated by the public ? Their elevation , if they have been unworthy of it , is so far from procuring them true honour , that it only renders their insigni- ficance , perhaps their infamy , more conspi cuous . By drawing ...
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... sometimes to a capricious humour , sometimes to selfish passions . I shall endeavour to explain the nature of true sensibility . I shall consider its effects ; and , after shewing its advantages , shall point out the abuses and mistaken ...
... sometimes to a capricious humour , sometimes to selfish passions . I shall endeavour to explain the nature of true sensibility . I shall consider its effects ; and , after shewing its advantages , shall point out the abuses and mistaken ...
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... Sometimes they are performed merely from decency and regard to character ; sometimes from fear , and even from selfishness , which obliges men to shew kindness , in order that they may receive returns of it . In such cases , the ...
... Sometimes they are performed merely from decency and regard to character ; sometimes from fear , and even from selfishness , which obliges men to shew kindness , in order that they may receive returns of it . In such cases , the ...
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... sometimes adherent to the most amiable qualities . • THERE are others who affect not sen- sibility to this extreme , but who found high claims to themselves upon the degree of interests which they take in the concerns of others ...
... sometimes adherent to the most amiable qualities . • THERE are others who affect not sen- sibility to this extreme , but who found high claims to themselves upon the degree of interests which they take in the concerns of others ...
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... sometimes without piercing the heart . Such sensations , to which . few , if any , of my hearers are wholly strangers , I now mention , as af- fording a strong proof of that vanity of the human state , which is so often repre- sented in ...
... sometimes without piercing the heart . Such sensations , to which . few , if any , of my hearers are wholly strangers , I now mention , as af- fording a strong proof of that vanity of the human state , which is so often repre- sented in ...
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