Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... sort of modesty is what they do not care to come into , why should I be afraid of being stared at for not being particular ? Or if the particularity lies in owning my weakness , will my wisest reader be so inhuman as not to pardon it ...
... sort of modesty is what they do not care to come into , why should I be afraid of being stared at for not being particular ? Or if the particularity lies in owning my weakness , will my wisest reader be so inhuman as not to pardon it ...
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... sort of curiosity would compensate their labours , that so many hasty writers have been encouraged to publish the lives of the late Mrs Oldfield , Mr Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost ...
... sort of curiosity would compensate their labours , that so many hasty writers have been encouraged to publish the lives of the late Mrs Oldfield , Mr Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost ...
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... sort a readiness of wit is not always a sign of intrinsic merit , so the want of that readiness is no reproach to a man of plain sense and civility , who therefore , methinks , should never have these lengths of liberty taken with him ...
... sort a readiness of wit is not always a sign of intrinsic merit , so the want of that readiness is no reproach to a man of plain sense and civility , who therefore , methinks , should never have these lengths of liberty taken with him ...
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... sort of restraint upon their liberty of pleasing their com- pany by pleasing themselves , I have said softly to myself , -Well , there is some advantage in having neither rank nor fortune ; not but there are among them a third sort ...
... sort of restraint upon their liberty of pleasing their com- pany by pleasing themselves , I have said softly to myself , -Well , there is some advantage in having neither rank nor fortune ; not but there are among them a third sort ...
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... sort of satisfaction to know it does not impose upon me . Vanity again ! However , think it what you will that has drawn me into this copious digression , it is now high time to drop it . I shall therefore in my next chapter return to ...
... sort of satisfaction to know it does not impose upon me . Vanity again ! However , think it what you will that has drawn me into this copious digression , it is now high time to drop it . I shall therefore in my next chapter return to ...
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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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