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Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ... - Page 108
by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1804
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the Graces. He throws any where, but down his...mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regard of social life, he mis-times or misplaces every thing. He disputes with heat, and indiscriminately;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the Graces. He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink ; and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes and misplaces...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 17

1826 - 602 pages
...Doctor," says he, " misplaces or mistimes every thing. He throws any where, but down his throat, what he means to drink, and only mangles what he means to carve. Is it possible to love such a man ?" I leave Garrick, and Reynolds, and Goldsmith, and Burke, and Boswell,...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in Committing acts of hostility upon the Graces. He throws any where but down his throat whatever he means to drink ; and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes and misplaces...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the graces. He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink ; and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes and misplaces...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Essay on the life and genius of Dr ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the graces. He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink ; and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes and misplaces...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...hostility upon the graces. He throws any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink ; and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes and misplaces every thing. He disputes with heat indiscriminately, mindless...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...the whole of this story. See Bos«rtll's I/le. vol. ¡. p. 123. Oct. Edit. 180». C. t Leiter CCXII. any where, but down his throat, whatever he means to drink : and mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mis-times and mis-places...
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The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster ..., Volume 2

George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the Graces. He throws any where but down his...means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes or misplaces every thing. He disputes with heat, and indiscriminately, mindless...
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The Beauties of Chesterfield: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Esq. Alfred Howard - 1831 - 306 pages
...situation of his body, they ought to be in, but constantly employed in committing acts of hostility upon the graces. He throws any where, but down his...means to carve. Inattentive to all the regards of social life, he mistimes or misplaces every thing. He disputes with heat, and indiscriminately, mindless...
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