The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Том 41 |
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... hope that they on their parts will be in like good - humour and charity with me . My first wish was to have followed the steps of these essayists , who have so successfully set the fashion of publishing their lucubrations from day to ...
... hope that they on their parts will be in like good - humour and charity with me . My first wish was to have followed the steps of these essayists , who have so successfully set the fashion of publishing their lucubrations from day to ...
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... hope will be ap- proved of ; I allude to those papers , in which I treat of the literature of the Greeks , carrying down my history in a chain of anecdotes from the earliest poets to the death of Menander ; to this part of my work I ...
... hope will be ap- proved of ; I allude to those papers , in which I treat of the literature of the Greeks , carrying down my history in a chain of anecdotes from the earliest poets to the death of Menander ; to this part of my work I ...
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... Hope , and hanging to the anchor of her salvation , Faith ; at other times without resist- ance carried down the tide of declamation , which rolled rapidly along in provincial dialect , like a torrent from his native Highland craggs ...
... Hope , and hanging to the anchor of her salvation , Faith ; at other times without resist- ance carried down the tide of declamation , which rolled rapidly along in provincial dialect , like a torrent from his native Highland craggs ...
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... hope of happi- ness I had in life : These learned ladies , as they would be thought , put me upon studies I was never fitted to , gave me this silly name Calliope , and never ceased inflaming my vanity , till they per- suaded me I had a ...
... hope of happi- ness I had in life : These learned ladies , as they would be thought , put me upon studies I was never fitted to , gave me this silly name Calliope , and never ceased inflaming my vanity , till they per- suaded me I had a ...
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... hope has been as useful to my country , the duties of an officer . Being his daughter , I had flattered myself you would not like me the less for following his profes- sion , or for being trained to it under his instruction . But alas ...
... hope has been as useful to my country , the duties of an officer . Being his daughter , I had flattered myself you would not like me the less for following his profes- sion , or for being trained to it under his instruction . But alas ...
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