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... common women , too , have learned this vice ; and not only strumpets , but laboring women , who keep our markets and ... common people make it a day of debauch , and get so drunk on a Sunday they cannot work for a day or two following ...
... common women , too , have learned this vice ; and not only strumpets , but laboring women , who keep our markets and ... common people make it a day of debauch , and get so drunk on a Sunday they cannot work for a day or two following ...
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... common sense , there is certainly a species of common sense which opposes it , at least serves to modify and restrain it . Whoever would assert an equality of genius and ele- gance between Ogilby and Milton , or Bunyan and Addison ...
... common sense , there is certainly a species of common sense which opposes it , at least serves to modify and restrain it . Whoever would assert an equality of genius and ele- gance between Ogilby and Milton , or Bunyan and Addison ...
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... common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in the human mind , to which the work must be referred , which still renders it more artificial , carries it still ...
... common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in the human mind , to which the work must be referred , which still renders it more artificial , carries it still ...
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Daniel Defoe | 11 |
Isaac Watts | 57 |
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