The British Essayists;: MirrorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... favoured the public with speculations on travelling ; and they have been at pains to point out the abuses of it that from time to time have prevailed among us . In the Spectator , the absurdity of a fond mother and mother's own son ...
... favoured the public with speculations on travelling ; and they have been at pains to point out the abuses of it that from time to time have prevailed among us . In the Spectator , the absurdity of a fond mother and mother's own son ...
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Alexander Chalmers. Although I am well acquainted with all the ar- guments in favour of gallantry , and allow them to have a great deal of weight , I cannot help thinking , that , when considered with a view to our fraternity , it is ...
Alexander Chalmers. Although I am well acquainted with all the ar- guments in favour of gallantry , and allow them to have a great deal of weight , I cannot help thinking , that , when considered with a view to our fraternity , it is ...
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... favoured regions to the heaths and mountains of their native land . In cul- tivated society , this sentiment of Home cherishes the useful virtues of domestic life ; it opposes , to the tumultuous pleasures of dissipation and intempe ...
... favoured regions to the heaths and mountains of their native land . In cul- tivated society , this sentiment of Home cherishes the useful virtues of domestic life ; it opposes , to the tumultuous pleasures of dissipation and intempe ...
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... favour of a heretic and a rebel . ' 6 We had scarcely time to draw breath after this story , when a mean - looking elderly man said , with the affectation of modest dignity , I had the happi- ness to be known to M. de Villars , and he ...
... favour of a heretic and a rebel . ' 6 We had scarcely time to draw breath after this story , when a mean - looking elderly man said , with the affectation of modest dignity , I had the happi- ness to be known to M. de Villars , and he ...
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... favour . She was beautiful almost beyond any thing I had ever seen ; and though , perhaps , there was not in her countenance any ex- pression strongly marked , there was , nevertheless , a gentleness and a sweetness in her whole deport ...
... favour . She was beautiful almost beyond any thing I had ever seen ; and though , perhaps , there was not in her countenance any ex- pression strongly marked , there was , nevertheless , a gentleness and a sweetness in her whole deport ...
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