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... human heart and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging o a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature , is scarce to be found in our own , or , per- haps , any other language 1 ...
... human heart and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging o a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature , is scarce to be found in our own , or , per- haps , any other language 1 ...
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... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... human will , by stating , with wonderful acute ingenuity , our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist , that the only relief I had was to forget it . ' MAYO . ' But he makes the proper distinction between moral and ...
... human will , by stating , with wonderful acute ingenuity , our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist , that the only relief I had was to forget it . ' MAYO . ' But he makes the proper distinction between moral and ...
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DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS | 1 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON SEPT 18 1709 | 17 |
INDEX 657704 | 657 |
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