Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... reason to be vain ; I am then distinguished by a pleasure too great to be concealed , and could almost pity the man of graver merit , that dares not receive it with the same unguarded transport ! This nakedness of temper the world may ...
... reason to be vain ; I am then distinguished by a pleasure too great to be concealed , and could almost pity the man of graver merit , that dares not receive it with the same unguarded transport ! This nakedness of temper the world may ...
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... reason to be ashamed of my original , yet I am afraid a plain dry account of it will scarcely admit of a better excuse than what my brother Bayes makes for prince Prettyman in the " Rehearsal , " viz . I only do it for fear I should be ...
... reason to be ashamed of my original , yet I am afraid a plain dry account of it will scarcely admit of a better excuse than what my brother Bayes makes for prince Prettyman in the " Rehearsal , " viz . I only do it for fear I should be ...
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... reason I had to reproach my compa- nion's declaring against me , I had none to wonder at it , while I was so often hurting him : thus I deserved his enmity by my not having sense enough to know I had hurt him ; and he hated me , because ...
... reason I had to reproach my compa- nion's declaring against me , I had none to wonder at it , while I was so often hurting him : thus I deserved his enmity by my not having sense enough to know I had hurt him ; and he hated me , because ...
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... reason that a man of real honour will never send a challenge to a cripple . The inward wounds that are given by the inconsiderate insults of wit to those that want it , are as dangerous as those given by oppression to inferiors ; as ...
... reason that a man of real honour will never send a challenge to a cripple . The inward wounds that are given by the inconsiderate insults of wit to those that want it , are as dangerous as those given by oppression to inferiors ; as ...
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... , my imagination is hurt at the severity of it ; and though I allow the satirist to have had per- sonal provocation , yet methinks for that very reason , he ought not to have troubled the public with it 28 THE LIFE OF.
... , my imagination is hurt at the severity of it ; and though I allow the satirist to have had per- sonal provocation , yet methinks for that very reason , he ought not to have troubled the public with it 28 THE LIFE OF.
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