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... hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual : And , perhaps , the only in- ftruction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what ...
... hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual : And , perhaps , the only in- ftruction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what ...
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... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects ...
... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects ...
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... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
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... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conver- fation , and fongs of cheerfulnefs and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , supporting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conver- fation , and fongs of cheerfulnefs and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , supporting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
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... of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome time in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle -looked -looked wiftfully at the little arrar gement he had made- 32 NARRATIVE PIECE S. Book II .
... of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome time in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridle -looked -looked wiftfully at the little arrar gement he had made- 32 NARRATIVE PIECE S. Book II .
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