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... confidered as remote and unaffecting , and will be rarely mentioned but by thofe whofe alliance or dependance gives them fome vanity to gra- tify by frequent commemoration . It seems not to be fufficiently confidered how little renown ...
... confidered as remote and unaffecting , and will be rarely mentioned but by thofe whofe alliance or dependance gives them fome vanity to gra- tify by frequent commemoration . It seems not to be fufficiently confidered how little renown ...
Page 126
... confidered only as the amusements of curiofity , they are of equal importance with conjectures on things more remote , with catalogues of the fixed stars , and calculations of the bulk of planets . ) IT had been a tafk worthy of the ...
... confidered only as the amusements of curiofity , they are of equal importance with conjectures on things more remote , with catalogues of the fixed stars , and calculations of the bulk of planets . ) IT had been a tafk worthy of the ...
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... confidered his ho- nour as endangered by the defertion of a wit , and left I fhould have an inclination to wan- der , told me that I could never find a friend more conftant or zealous than himself ; that indeed he had made no promifes ...
... confidered his ho- nour as endangered by the defertion of a wit , and left I fhould have an inclination to wan- der , told me that I could never find a friend more conftant or zealous than himself ; that indeed he had made no promifes ...
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The danger of attempting wit in converfation | 24 |
An account of fquire Blufter | 32 |
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