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... diligence of former ages . has accumulated , and then endeavour to en- crease them by his own collections , H 5 THE THE mental disease of the present gene- ration , is No. 154. The RAMBLER . 153 The treatment incurred by loss of fortune.
... diligence of former ages . has accumulated , and then endeavour to en- crease them by his own collections , H 5 THE THE mental disease of the present gene- ration , is No. 154. The RAMBLER . 153 The treatment incurred by loss of fortune.
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... present inhabitants of a country cannot be much encreased by an enquiry after the names of those barbarians , who deftroyed one another twenty centuries ago , in contests for the fhelter of woods or convenience of pafturage . Yet we see ...
... present inhabitants of a country cannot be much encreased by an enquiry after the names of those barbarians , who deftroyed one another twenty centuries ago , in contests for the fhelter of woods or convenience of pafturage . Yet we see ...
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... present to his mind . Yet if he has been employed on an abstruse or complicated argument , he will find , when he has a while withdrawn his mind , and returns as a new rea- der to his work , that he has only a conjectural glimpse of his ...
... present to his mind . Yet if he has been employed on an abstruse or complicated argument , he will find , when he has a while withdrawn his mind , and returns as a new rea- der to his work , that he has only a conjectural glimpse of his ...
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The danger of attempting wit in converfation | 24 |
An account of fquire Blufter | 32 |
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