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... confider themselves under that me- lancholy view , in which Chamont regards his fifter , in those beautiful lines ; Long The flourish'd , Grew fweet to fenfe , and lovely to the eye : ' Till at the last a cruel spoiler came , Gropt this ...
... confider themselves under that me- lancholy view , in which Chamont regards his fifter , in those beautiful lines ; Long The flourish'd , Grew fweet to fenfe , and lovely to the eye : ' Till at the last a cruel spoiler came , Gropt this ...
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... confider , how fhameful it would be for a general who has made a fuccefsful campaign , to be furprised in his winter - quarters : it would be no less difhonourable for a lady to lose , in any other month of the year , what she has been ...
... confider , how fhameful it would be for a general who has made a fuccefsful campaign , to be furprised in his winter - quarters : it would be no less difhonourable for a lady to lose , in any other month of the year , what she has been ...
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... confider well what are the characters which they bear among their ene- mies . Our friends very often flatter us , as much as our own hearts . They either do not see our faults , or conceal them from us , or foften them by their re ...
... confider well what are the characters which they bear among their ene- mies . Our friends very often flatter us , as much as our own hearts . They either do not see our faults , or conceal them from us , or foften them by their re ...
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reflection is abfolutely neceffary , if we confider how apt we are either to value or condemn ourselves by the opinions of others , and to facrifice the report of our own hearts to the judgment of the world . In the next place , that we ...
reflection is abfolutely neceffary , if we confider how apt we are either to value or condemn ourselves by the opinions of others , and to facrifice the report of our own hearts to the judgment of the world . In the next place , that we ...
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... confider this great city in its several quarters and divifions , I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations , diftinguished from each other by their refpective cuftoms , manners , and interefts . The courts of two countries do ...
... confider this great city in its several quarters and divifions , I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations , diftinguished from each other by their refpective cuftoms , manners , and interefts . The courts of two countries do ...
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