The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... mankind ; yet whoever shall read it , with impartiality , will find that most of the images are of the mythological kind , and therefore easily invented ; and that there are few sentiments of rational praise or natural lamentation ...
... mankind ; yet whoever shall read it , with impartiality , will find that most of the images are of the mythological kind , and therefore easily invented ; and that there are few sentiments of rational praise or natural lamentation ...
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... mankind , that books are multiplied , and that different authors lay out their labours on the same subject ; for there will always be some reason why one should , on particular occa- sions , or to particular persons , be preferable to ...
... mankind , that books are multiplied , and that different authors lay out their labours on the same subject ; for there will always be some reason why one should , on particular occa- sions , or to particular persons , be preferable to ...
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... mankind , by conveying instructions to them in a grateful vehicle . There are , likewise , many modes of composition by which a moralist may deserve the name of an original writer ; he may familiarize his system by dialogues after the ...
... mankind , by conveying instructions to them in a grateful vehicle . There are , likewise , many modes of composition by which a moralist may deserve the name of an original writer ; he may familiarize his system by dialogues after the ...
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... mankind . They are to observe the alterations which time is always making in the modes of life , that they may gratify every generation with a picture of themselves . Thus love is uniform , but courtship is perpetually varying ; the ...
... mankind . They are to observe the alterations which time is always making in the modes of life , that they may gratify every generation with a picture of themselves . Thus love is uniform , but courtship is perpetually varying ; the ...
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... mankind may fill their compositions with an inexhaustible variety of images and allusions ; and he must be confessed to look with little attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they ...
... mankind may fill their compositions with an inexhaustible variety of images and allusions ; and he must be confessed to look with little attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they ...
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