Collected Works, Volume 2Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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... fortune myself , was taught to despise those who lived as if they were poor . My intercourse with the great , and my affectation of grandeur procured me many lovers , but want of fortune deterred them all 10 from any other views than ...
... fortune myself , was taught to despise those who lived as if they were poor . My intercourse with the great , and my affectation of grandeur procured me many lovers , but want of fortune deterred them all 10 from any other views than ...
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... fortune already suffi- 25 cient procure ? Not any . Could the great man by having his fortune encreased , encrease also his appetites , then precedence might be attended with real amusement . Was he by having his one thousand made two ...
... fortune already suffi- 25 cient procure ? Not any . Could the great man by having his fortune encreased , encrease also his appetites , then precedence might be attended with real amusement . Was he by having his one thousand made two ...
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... [ Fortune proved not to be blind . The story of the avaricious miller . ] From Lien Chi Altangi to Hingpo , by the way of Moscow . Twith Elright . No first - rate beauty ever had finer eyes , or saw HE Europeans are themselves blind , who ...
... [ Fortune proved not to be blind . The story of the avaricious miller . ] From Lien Chi Altangi to Hingpo , by the way of Moscow . Twith Elright . No first - rate beauty ever had finer eyes , or saw HE Europeans are themselves blind , who ...
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