Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 5Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... wish is found a disappointment : but when many others are inter- ested in an undertaking , when any design is formed , in which the improvement or security of mankind is involved , nothing is more unworthy either of wisdom , or ...
... wish is found a disappointment : but when many others are inter- ested in an undertaking , when any design is formed , in which the improvement or security of mankind is involved , nothing is more unworthy either of wisdom , or ...
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... wish to be surrounded by those that love him , than by those that admire his excellencies , or solicit his favours ; for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ...
... wish to be surrounded by those that love him , than by those that admire his excellencies , or solicit his favours ; for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ...
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... wishes , and ex- asperated our necessities , and my father could not al- ways restrain himself from exclaiming , that no crea- ture had so many lives as a cat and an old maid . At last , upon the recovery of his sister from an ague ...
... wishes , and ex- asperated our necessities , and my father could not al- ways restrain himself from exclaiming , that no crea- ture had so many lives as a cat and an old maid . At last , upon the recovery of his sister from an ague ...
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... the least obstruction of her wishes . Those who have long lived in soli- tude indeed naturally contract this unsocial quality , because , because , having long had only themselves to please , 20 N ° 74 . THE RAMBLER .
... the least obstruction of her wishes . Those who have long lived in soli- tude indeed naturally contract this unsocial quality , because , because , having long had only themselves to please , 20 N ° 74 . THE RAMBLER .
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... wishes for universal happiness , that he looks on himself as suffering unjustly under the in- famy of single failings , while the general temper of his mind is unknown or unregarded . It is natural to mean well , when only abstracted ...
... wishes for universal happiness , that he looks on himself as suffering unjustly under the in- famy of single failings , while the general temper of his mind is unknown or unregarded . It is natural to mean well , when only abstracted ...
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