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Page 112
... Less trifling , less genteel , and less moral than Addison , its author will scarcely obtain so popular a reputation : but , as a painter of living manners , sketched from reality and without caricature , he is intitled to eminent rank ...
... Less trifling , less genteel , and less moral than Addison , its author will scarcely obtain so popular a reputation : but , as a painter of living manners , sketched from reality and without caricature , he is intitled to eminent rank ...
Page 253
... less par- tial , nor less calculated to convey to the youthful mind unfa- vourable impressions of human nature . What do you mean by law - suits ? ' says the daughter ; to which the mother very scientifically replies , They are wars ...
... less par- tial , nor less calculated to convey to the youthful mind unfa- vourable impressions of human nature . What do you mean by law - suits ? ' says the daughter ; to which the mother very scientifically replies , They are wars ...
Page 416
... less observation than the preceding volume ; and it is in consequence less entertaining . The air of Scotland seems to inspire the author with the metaphysical passion of its collegians ; and he wastes in abstraction and hypothesis that ...
... less observation than the preceding volume ; and it is in consequence less entertaining . The air of Scotland seems to inspire the author with the metaphysical passion of its collegians ; and he wastes in abstraction and hypothesis that ...
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