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If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a ' mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.

Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 73
1823
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Law, Sensibility, and the Sublime in Eighteenth-century Women's Fiction ...

Sue Chaplin, Susan Chaplin - 2004 - 184 pages

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Novel and Romance, 1700-1800: A Documentary Record

Ioan M. Williams - 1970 - 484 pages

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Sex Expression in Literature

Victor Francis Calverton - 1926 - 378 pages

...nature which are most proper for imitation. "If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account, or why it may not be safe to turn the eyes immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself...

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The Works of Samuel Johnson. In Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life ...

Samuel Johnson

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