Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... allowed , that in all the dispensations of Providence the exercise of a great and virtuous mind is the most elevated state of happiness . No , sir ; I am not for setting up gaiety against wisdom , nor for preferring the man of pleasure ...
... allowed , that in all the dispensations of Providence the exercise of a great and virtuous mind is the most elevated state of happiness . No , sir ; I am not for setting up gaiety against wisdom , nor for preferring the man of pleasure ...
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... allowed me , nor would become me to take in the company I am gene- rally admitted to ; but here , when I have all the talk to myself , and have nobody to interrupt or contradict me , sure , to say whatever I have a mind other people ...
... allowed me , nor would become me to take in the company I am gene- rally admitted to ; but here , when I have all the talk to myself , and have nobody to interrupt or contradict me , sure , to say whatever I have a mind other people ...
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... allowed more license than comedy , or why either of them ( to be admired ) ought not to be limited by decency and justice . Let Juvenal and Aristophanes have taken what liberties they please , if the learned have nothing more than their ...
... allowed more license than comedy , or why either of them ( to be admired ) ought not to be limited by decency and justice . Let Juvenal and Aristophanes have taken what liberties they please , if the learned have nothing more than their ...
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... allowed my never having been disturbed into a reply has proceeded as much from vanity as from philosophy , the matter then may not seem so incredible : and though I confess the com- plete revenge of making them immortal dunces in im ...
... allowed my never having been disturbed into a reply has proceeded as much from vanity as from philosophy , the matter then may not seem so incredible : and though I confess the com- plete revenge of making them immortal dunces in im ...
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... allowed to write better than myself . Whenever I speak of any thing that highly delights me , I find it very difficult to keep my words within the bounds of common sense . Even when I write too , the same failing will sometimes get the ...
... allowed to write better than myself . Whenever I speak of any thing that highly delights me , I find it very difficult to keep my words within the bounds of common sense . Even when I write too , the same failing will sometimes get the ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever ... BiblioBazaar Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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