Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... pleasure . Such lenient periphrases are of most injurious tendency ; and if the Society for the Suppression of Vice have failed to interfere for their discontinuance , I am con- fident that the Institution which I have the honour to ...
... pleasure . Such lenient periphrases are of most injurious tendency ; and if the Society for the Suppression of Vice have failed to interfere for their discontinuance , I am con- fident that the Institution which I have the honour to ...
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... pleasures of others . Where , indeed , is the Barber of any age or country against whom an imputation can be justly levelled ? His is one of the fine arts which pre - eminently " emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . " As iron , by ...
... pleasures of others . Where , indeed , is the Barber of any age or country against whom an imputation can be justly levelled ? His is one of the fine arts which pre - eminently " emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . " As iron , by ...
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... pleasure , for no man voluntarily prefers wretchedness . Avarice has been designated the vice of old age ; may it not sometimes be its consolation also ? When the senses have failed , when the affections are dried up , when there is no ...
... pleasure , for no man voluntarily prefers wretchedness . Avarice has been designated the vice of old age ; may it not sometimes be its consolation also ? When the senses have failed , when the affections are dried up , when there is no ...
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... pleasure ; and Nature herself , in the beneficent equa- lity of her dispensations , has prevented us from usurp- ing any undue share of pleasurable sensation , by limiting our capacities to that portion of enjoyment which is pretty much ...
... pleasure ; and Nature herself , in the beneficent equa- lity of her dispensations , has prevented us from usurp- ing any undue share of pleasurable sensation , by limiting our capacities to that portion of enjoyment which is pretty much ...
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... pleasure . Henry the Eighth and Francis of France , in their meeting on the field of Gold Cloth , had completely exhausted , in fourteen days , all the means of gratification which the wealth and genius of their respective countries ...
... pleasure . Henry the Eighth and Francis of France , in their meeting on the field of Gold Cloth , had completely exhausted , in fourteen days , all the means of gratification which the wealth and genius of their respective countries ...
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