Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 6Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... escape with a slight examination , laugh- ed at the pertness of my ignorance , and the sprightli- ness of my absurdities , and could not forbear to show that he regarded me with such tenderness , as genius and learning can seldom excite ...
... escape with a slight examination , laugh- ed at the pertness of my ignorance , and the sprightli- ness of my absurdities , and could not forbear to show that he regarded me with such tenderness , as genius and learning can seldom excite ...
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... escape to solitude , or steal a moment from the emulation of complaisance , and the vigilance of offi- ciousness . In these rambles of good neighbourhood , we fre- quently passed by a house of unusual magnificence . While I had my ...
... escape to solitude , or steal a moment from the emulation of complaisance , and the vigilance of offi- ciousness . In these rambles of good neighbourhood , we fre- quently passed by a house of unusual magnificence . While I had my ...
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... escape from tutor . age , my father's brother came from London to pass a summer at his native place . A lucrative employ- ment which he possessed , and a fondness for the con- versation and diversions of the gay part of mankind , had so ...
... escape from tutor . age , my father's brother came from London to pass a summer at his native place . A lucrative employ- ment which he possessed , and a fondness for the con- versation and diversions of the gay part of mankind , had so ...
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... escaped by flight ; neither awed by greatness , nor eluded by obscurity ; philosophers have endea- voured to reconcile us to that condition which they cannot teach us to mend , by persuading us that most of our evils are made afflictive ...
... escaped by flight ; neither awed by greatness , nor eluded by obscurity ; philosophers have endea- voured to reconcile us to that condition which they cannot teach us to mend , by persuading us that most of our evils are made afflictive ...
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... escape misfortune is to want instruction , and that to live at ease is to live in ignorance . As no man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it , the experience of calamity is ne- cessary to a just sense of better fortune ...
... escape misfortune is to want instruction , and that to live at ease is to live in ignorance . As no man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it , the experience of calamity is ne- cessary to a just sense of better fortune ...
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