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... Same Subject III . On Criticifm IV . On Negroes V. Rivers and Sir Harry VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling VII . Belcour and Stockwell VIII . Lord Eustace and Frampton IX . Duke and Lord X. Duke and Jaques Harris 198 Ibid 204 Sterne 209 ...
... Same Subject III . On Criticifm IV . On Negroes V. Rivers and Sir Harry VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling VII . Belcour and Stockwell VIII . Lord Eustace and Frampton IX . Duke and Lord X. Duke and Jaques Harris 198 Ibid 204 Sterne 209 ...
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... same person would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world ftood neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confiderable . At length , when these two potentates ...
... same person would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world ftood neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confiderable . At length , when these two potentates ...
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... same person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pronounce a fentence without ...
... same person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pronounce a fentence without ...
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... same ftale filent scene : Such are thy comforts , bleffed Solitude ! --- But Innocence is there , but Peace all kind , And fimple Quiet with her downy couch , Meads lowing , tune of birds , and lapse of streams , And faunter with a book ...
... same ftale filent scene : Such are thy comforts , bleffed Solitude ! --- But Innocence is there , but Peace all kind , And fimple Quiet with her downy couch , Meads lowing , tune of birds , and lapse of streams , And faunter with a book ...
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... same effect upon others , as if the paffion was real . If therefore to quicken the flow , to rouse the in- attentive , and restrain the fierce , it is fometimes expedient that they believe you are moved , you may put on the out- ward ...
... same effect upon others , as if the paffion was real . If therefore to quicken the flow , to rouse the in- attentive , and restrain the fierce , it is fometimes expedient that they believe you are moved , you may put on the out- ward ...
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