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... first year , by an entertainment , at which the house is thrown open to all that are inclined to enter it , and the whole province flocks together as to a general festivity . On this occafion young Blufter exhibited the first tokens of ...
... first year , by an entertainment , at which the house is thrown open to all that are inclined to enter it , and the whole province flocks together as to a general festivity . On this occafion young Blufter exhibited the first tokens of ...
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... first attempt to reduce them into practice certainly deftroys . If we climate dignity by immediate usefulness , agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science ; yet we see the plow driven , the clod broken , the manure fpread ...
... first attempt to reduce them into practice certainly deftroys . If we climate dignity by immediate usefulness , agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science ; yet we see the plow driven , the clod broken , the manure fpread ...
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... first pains and pleasures , our first hopes and fears , our firft averfions and defires from the fame caufes ; and though as we proceed farther , life opens wider profpects to our view , and accidental impulfes determine us to different ...
... first pains and pleasures , our first hopes and fears , our firft averfions and defires from the fame caufes ; and though as we proceed farther , life opens wider profpects to our view , and accidental impulfes determine us to different ...
Contents
NUMB Page 137 The neceffity of literary courage I | 9 |
A critical examination of Samfon Agonifies | 18 |
The criticiſm continued | 28 |
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| Title | The Rambler. ... English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection The Eighteenth Century The Rambler, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2006 |
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