Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 5Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... understanding , she was soon intoxicated by the flatteries of her maid , who informed her that ladies , such as she , had no- thing to do , but take pleasure their own way ; that she wanted nothing from others , and had therefore no ...
... understanding , she was soon intoxicated by the flatteries of her maid , who informed her that ladies , such as she , had no- thing to do , but take pleasure their own way ; that she wanted nothing from others , and had therefore no ...
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... understanding , unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , the child of vanity , and ...
... understanding , unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base extraction , the child of vanity , and ...
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... understanding , or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a crime , instead of seeking for some remedy with- in themselves , they look round upon the rest of mankind , to find others tainted with the ...
... understanding , or less attention . When their hearts are burthened with the consciousness of a crime , instead of seeking for some remedy with- in themselves , they look round upon the rest of mankind , to find others tainted with the ...
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... understandings , by turning the attention wholly from himself , and keep- ing it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by showing how many evils are avoided by his beha- viour , he may conceal for a time those which are in ...
... understandings , by turning the attention wholly from himself , and keep- ing it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by showing how many evils are avoided by his beha- viour , he may conceal for a time those which are in ...
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... understandings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the desire of men , sunk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for ...
... understandings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against them , and hope to overpower their own knowledge . It is generally not so much the desire of men , sunk into depravity , to deceive the world as themselves , for ...
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