Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, Volume 1R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - English essays |
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... farther , I do not know whether I could not lay down to you a fort of Scheme on it ; which might go a good Way not only toward clearing up this , but most of the other Difficulties that fo often occur in talk- ing of it . " I fhould as ...
... farther , I do not know whether I could not lay down to you a fort of Scheme on it ; which might go a good Way not only toward clearing up this , but most of the other Difficulties that fo often occur in talk- ing of it . " I fhould as ...
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... farther and farther from it . It might found odd to you , if I fhould fay , that a Woman is like a Pine - apple ; yet the Similitude would hold much farther , and in more Particulars , than any one would at firft imagine . She has her ...
... farther and farther from it . It might found odd to you , if I fhould fay , that a Woman is like a Pine - apple ; yet the Similitude would hold much farther , and in more Particulars , than any one would at firft imagine . She has her ...
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... farther than mere Bulk ; it will reach even to very great Deformities ; which fometimes grow into Beauties , where they are ha- bitual and general . One of our own Countrymen ( who was a particularly handsome Man , ) in his tra- velling ...
... farther than mere Bulk ; it will reach even to very great Deformities ; which fometimes grow into Beauties , where they are ha- bitual and general . One of our own Countrymen ( who was a particularly handsome Man , ) in his tra- velling ...
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... farther back in Hiftory ) how much more amiable is the Death of Socrates , than the whole Life of Alexander the Great ? As Virtue is the fupreme Beauty , so is Vice the moft odious of all Deformities . I do not know how to make this ...
... farther back in Hiftory ) how much more amiable is the Death of Socrates , than the whole Life of Alexander the Great ? As Virtue is the fupreme Beauty , so is Vice the moft odious of all Deformities . I do not know how to make this ...
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... farther you fee a Spread of wild , Foreft - trees , and such as grow only on the most barren Mountains : Then , perhaps , vaft Timber - trees with their Under - wood ; then Trees from all foreign Countries ; and then , some all blooming ...
... farther you fee a Spread of wild , Foreft - trees , and such as grow only on the most barren Mountains : Then , perhaps , vaft Timber - trees with their Under - wood ; then Trees from all foreign Countries ; and then , some all blooming ...
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