The British Essayists: The MirrorLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... acquired a stronger attachment to the pleasures of a town life , than was either right in itself , or agreeable to that preference for domestic society , and the quiet of a country life , which he had always felt , and which he still ...
... acquired a stronger attachment to the pleasures of a town life , than was either right in itself , or agreeable to that preference for domestic society , and the quiet of a country life , which he had always felt , and which he still ...
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... acquire this complacency of temper , which it always requires much discipline , and often the rod of adversity and disappointment , to subdue . If men truly possess that superiority of under- standing over NO . 58 . 13 MIRROR .
... acquire this complacency of temper , which it always requires much discipline , and often the rod of adversity and disappointment , to subdue . If men truly possess that superiority of under- standing over NO . 58 . 13 MIRROR .
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... acquire , from a sense of its propriety , a virtue , for which , it must be allowed , that the other sex is more indebted to their original consti- tution . If women , as we sometimes allege , are too apt to connect the idea of pride ...
... acquire , from a sense of its propriety , a virtue , for which , it must be allowed , that the other sex is more indebted to their original consti- tution . If women , as we sometimes allege , are too apt to connect the idea of pride ...
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... acquired an equal reputation with a flask of good wine . But most opiates serve only as temporary palliatives , and some , while they give immediate relief , are known to increase the disease . I am afraid we must apply to the pleasures ...
... acquired an equal reputation with a flask of good wine . But most opiates serve only as temporary palliatives , and some , while they give immediate relief , are known to increase the disease . I am afraid we must apply to the pleasures ...
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... acquire a critical taste in any of the fine arts , without the smallest por- tion of natural genius ; and it must be acknowledged , * Mr . Webb . See Preface to his Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting , & c . that his theory is proved ...
... acquire a critical taste in any of the fine arts , without the smallest por- tion of natural genius ; and it must be acknowledged , * Mr . Webb . See Preface to his Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting , & c . that his theory is proved ...
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