The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... proper to close up acts of plays , and may be easily introduced by two or three lines of prose , either in tragedy or comedy . If I could find a purchaser curious in Latin poetry , I could ac- commodate him with two dozen of epigrams ...
... proper to close up acts of plays , and may be easily introduced by two or three lines of prose , either in tragedy or comedy . If I could find a purchaser curious in Latin poetry , I could ac- commodate him with two dozen of epigrams ...
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... proper forms and orders in as- semblies , have upon some tempers . I am sure I feel it in so extraordinary a manner , that I cannot in a day or two get out of my imagination any very beau- tiful or disagreeable impression which I ...
... proper forms and orders in as- semblies , have upon some tempers . I am sure I feel it in so extraordinary a manner , that I cannot in a day or two get out of my imagination any very beau- tiful or disagreeable impression which I ...
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... proper dignity . As man is a creature made up of different extremes , he has something in him very great and A skilful artist very mean . draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views . The finest authors of antiquity have ...
... proper dignity . As man is a creature made up of different extremes , he has something in him very great and A skilful artist very mean . draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views . The finest authors of antiquity have ...
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... proper if your gen- tleman - usher or groom of the chamber were always to keep an account , by way of debtor and creditor . I know a city lady who uses that method , which I think very laudable : for though you may possibly at the court ...
... proper if your gen- tleman - usher or groom of the chamber were always to keep an account , by way of debtor and creditor . I know a city lady who uses that method , which I think very laudable : for though you may possibly at the court ...
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... proper time of their inter- ment ; and having on the other hand received many appeals from the aforesaid dead persons , wherein they desire to be heard before such their interment ; I have set apart Wednesday , the twenty - first ...
... proper time of their inter- ment ; and having on the other hand received many appeals from the aforesaid dead persons , wherein they desire to be heard before such their interment ; I have set apart Wednesday , the twenty - first ...
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