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Сторінка 42
To shew you I am capable of improvement , and hate flattery , I acknowledge I do
not like some of your papers ; but even there I am readier to call in ques . tion my
own shallow understanding than Mr . Spectator ' s profound judgment .
To shew you I am capable of improvement , and hate flattery , I acknowledge I do
not like some of your papers ; but even there I am readier to call in ques . tion my
own shallow understanding than Mr . Spectator ' s profound judgment .
Сторінка 86
It is certain nothing has so much debased that , which must have been otherwise
so great a character ; and I know not how to account for it , unless it may possibly
be in complaisance to those narrow minds who can have no no . tion of the ...
It is certain nothing has so much debased that , which must have been otherwise
so great a character ; and I know not how to account for it , unless it may possibly
be in complaisance to those narrow minds who can have no no . tion of the ...
Сторінка 93
The r vir Cortury those who are best bade to becomns Du rant , but how
monstrous is in the penerur t alW 4 kind who pretend this way , w ar einu ir baina
this . tion towards it ! " The scene TIP E vid 76 , au negil vagance : this is . as i
sout sw ...
The r vir Cortury those who are best bade to becomns Du rant , but how
monstrous is in the penerur t alW 4 kind who pretend this way , w ar einu ir baina
this . tion towards it ! " The scene TIP E vid 76 , au negil vagance : this is . as i
sout sw ...
Сторінка 114
... they cannot be mistresses of themselves enough to make argunients for their
own conduct from the behaviour of these men to others . It is so far otherwise ,
that a general fame for falsehood in this kind , is a recommenda . i E tion ; and the
...
... they cannot be mistresses of themselves enough to make argunients for their
own conduct from the behaviour of these men to others . It is so far otherwise ,
that a general fame for falsehood in this kind , is a recommenda . i E tion ; and the
...
Сторінка 190
2 pa sion , and will besides feel something like the satisfac - tof tion of a revenge ,
in seeing you undergo all his own tortures . But this , indeed , is an artifice so
difficult , us and at the same time so disingenuous , that it ought never to be put in
...
2 pa sion , and will besides feel something like the satisfac - tof tion of a revenge ,
in seeing you undergo all his own tortures . But this , indeed , is an artifice so
difficult , us and at the same time so disingenuous , that it ought never to be put in
...
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