The British Essayists: RamblerAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 |
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... artifices by which followers are attracted only to decorate the retinue of pomp , and swell the shout of popularity , and to be dismissed with contempt and ignominy , when their leader has succeeded or miscarried , when he is sick of ...
... artifices by which followers are attracted only to decorate the retinue of pomp , and swell the shout of popularity , and to be dismissed with contempt and ignominy , when their leader has succeeded or miscarried , when he is sick of ...
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... artifice of disposition and fertility of invention . Few have strength of reason to over - rule the perceptions of sense ; and yet fewer have curiosity or benevolence to struggle long against the first impression : he therefore who ...
... artifice of disposition and fertility of invention . Few have strength of reason to over - rule the perceptions of sense ; and yet fewer have curiosity or benevolence to struggle long against the first impression : he therefore who ...
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... artifice and concealment are to be banished for ever , and in which every act of dissimulation is a breach of faith . The impetuous vivacity of youth , and that ar- dour of desire , which the first sight of pleasure naturally produces ...
... artifice and concealment are to be banished for ever , and in which every act of dissimulation is a breach of faith . The impetuous vivacity of youth , and that ar- dour of desire , which the first sight of pleasure naturally produces ...
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... artifice of embellishment , and the .powers of attraction , can be gained only by general converse . An acquaintance with prevailing customs and fashionable elegance is necessary likewise for other purposes . The injury that grand ...
... artifice of embellishment , and the .powers of attraction , can be gained only by general converse . An acquaintance with prevailing customs and fashionable elegance is necessary likewise for other purposes . The injury that grand ...
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... artifices of lewdness . He told me at last , with an appearance of sorrow , that all hopes of restoration to my former state were for ever precluded ; that chance had discovered my secret , and malice divulged it ; and that nothing now ...
... artifices of lewdness . He told me at last , with an appearance of sorrow , that all hopes of restoration to my former state were for ever precluded ; that chance had discovered my secret , and malice divulged it ; and that nothing now ...
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