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... raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully an swerable to such expectation , they occasion disappointment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divi sins of the sense ...
... raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully an swerable to such expectation , they occasion disappointment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divi sins of the sense ...
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... raise and support . " The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the Sd sylla ble , which in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , if the melody only were to be regarded , illumine should be ...
... raise and support . " The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the Sd sylla ble , which in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , if the melody only were to be regarded , illumine should be ...
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... raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it generally brings on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he can bring on the ob ject of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ...
... raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it generally brings on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he can bring on the ob ject of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ...
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... raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity ! how blunt are all the ...
... raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity ! how blunt are all the ...
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... Raised to great- ness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gra- tification of his passions . 2 As the honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is ...
... Raised to great- ness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gra- tification of his passions . 2 As the honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is ...
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