The British Essayists, Volumen21Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... things which I do not understand ; and have , therefore , been of late particularly delighted with many disputes about the alteration of the style , which , they say , is to be made by act of parliament . One day when my mamma was gone ...
... things which I do not understand ; and have , therefore , been of late particularly delighted with many disputes about the alteration of the style , which , they say , is to be made by act of parliament . One day when my mamma was gone ...
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... thing so charming ? a whole year of confusion ! When there has been a rout at mamma's , I have thought one night of confusion worth a thousand nights of rest ; and if I can but see a year of confusion , a whole year , of cards in one ...
... thing so charming ? a whole year of confusion ! When there has been a rout at mamma's , I have thought one night of confusion worth a thousand nights of rest ; and if I can but see a year of confusion , a whole year , of cards in one ...
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... thing surely could please me like a year of confusion , when I shall no longer be fixed this hour to my pen , and the next to my needle , or wait at home for the dancing - master one day , and the next for the musick- master , but run ...
... thing surely could please me like a year of confusion , when I shall no longer be fixed this hour to my pen , and the next to my needle , or wait at home for the dancing - master one day , and the next for the musick- master , but run ...
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... things , which his system of opinions ob- liged him to represent in its worst form , has observed of the earth , " that its greater part is covered by the " uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is en- " cumbered with naked ...
... things , which his system of opinions ob- liged him to represent in its worst form , has observed of the earth , " that its greater part is covered by the " uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is en- " cumbered with naked ...
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... things by division , and little things by accumulation . Of extensive surfaces we can only take a survey , as the parts succeed one an- other ; and atoms we cannot perceive till they are united into masses . Thus we break the vast ...
... things by division , and little things by accumulation . Of extensive surfaces we can only take a survey , as the parts succeed one an- other ; and atoms we cannot perceive till they are united into masses . Thus we break the vast ...
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Página 178 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
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