Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 252
... common no one principal object of awe and consent as justly banished society . respect , people are apt to take a Mutual complaisances , attentions , greater latitude in their behaviour , and sacrifices of little conveniences , and to ...
... common no one principal object of awe and consent as justly banished society . respect , people are apt to take a Mutual complaisances , attentions , greater latitude in their behaviour , and sacrifices of little conveniences , and to ...
Page 290
... common Lot of proper terms , but it is not always all Mankind . necessary to teach the art . That the vulgar express their Such is the emptiness of human thoughts clearly is far from true ; enjoyments , that we are always impa- and what ...
... common Lot of proper terms , but it is not always all Mankind . necessary to teach the art . That the vulgar express their Such is the emptiness of human thoughts clearly is far from true ; enjoyments , that we are always impa- and what ...
Page 326
... common people ; discovering When he gives over , it is a sign the even in the great Trebatius , to whom subject is exhausted , and the wit of he addresses the first satire , his man can carry it no farther . hunting after business , and ...
... common people ; discovering When he gives over , it is a sign the even in the great Trebatius , to whom subject is exhausted , and the wit of he addresses the first satire , his man can carry it no farther . hunting after business , and ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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