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... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
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... observed , is the sketch of No. 196 of the " Rambler . " gratify my readers with another specimen " Confederacies difficult ; why . " Seldom in war a match for single persons- nor in peace ; therefore kings make themselves absolute ...
... observed , is the sketch of No. 196 of the " Rambler . " gratify my readers with another specimen " Confederacies difficult ; why . " Seldom in war a match for single persons- nor in peace ; therefore kings make themselves absolute ...
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... observed above , had , Levet , an obscure practiser in physic from the first reading of his " Life of amongst the lower people , his fees being Savage , " conceived a very high admiration ' s powers of writing . sometimes very small ...
... observed above , had , Levet , an obscure practiser in physic from the first reading of his " Life of amongst the lower people , his fees being Savage , " conceived a very high admiration ' s powers of writing . sometimes very small ...
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... observed how well they were expressed . ' This air of indifference , which imposed upon the worthy Dodsley , was certainly nothing but a specimen of that dissimulation which Lord Chesterfield inculcated as one of the most essential ...
... observed how well they were expressed . ' This air of indifference , which imposed upon the worthy Dodsley , was certainly nothing but a specimen of that dissimulation which Lord Chesterfield inculcated as one of the most essential ...
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... observed , when I was abroad , has a more extensive circulation upon the Continent than any of the English news- papers . It was constantly read by Johnson himself ; and it is but just to observe , that it has all along been ...
... observed , when I was abroad , has a more extensive circulation upon the Continent than any of the English news- papers . It was constantly read by Johnson himself ; and it is but just to observe , that it has all along been ...
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