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... action of a vigorous fancy upon comprehenfive knowledge , brings diftant ideas unexpect- edly together , who by fome peculiar a- cuteness discovers refemblances in objects diffimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions ...
... action of a vigorous fancy upon comprehenfive knowledge , brings diftant ideas unexpect- edly together , who by fome peculiar a- cuteness discovers refemblances in objects diffimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions ...
Page 136
... action . by agreeable appearances . It had therefore been of advantage if fuch of our writers as have excelled in the art of decorating infigni- ficance , had fupplied us with a few fallies of innocent gaiety , effufions of honeft ...
... action . by agreeable appearances . It had therefore been of advantage if fuch of our writers as have excelled in the art of decorating infigni- ficance , had fupplied us with a few fallies of innocent gaiety , effufions of honeft ...
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... action which raises one whom they have always been accuftom- ed to think below them , but fatisfy them- felves with faint praife and penurious pay- ment , and then drive it from their own I minds and endeavour to conceal it from the ...
... action which raises one whom they have always been accuftom- ed to think below them , but fatisfy them- felves with faint praife and penurious pay- ment , and then drive it from their own I minds and endeavour to conceal it from the ...
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The danger of attempting wit in converfation | 24 |
An account of fquire Blufter | 32 |
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