The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... heard the streets in the pos- session of the bell - man , who had now the world to himself , and cry'd , Past two o'clock . ' This roused me from my seat ; and I went to my lodgings , led by a light , whom I put into the discourse of ...
... heard the streets in the pos- session of the bell - man , who had now the world to himself , and cry'd , Past two o'clock . ' This roused me from my seat ; and I went to my lodgings , led by a light , whom I put into the discourse of ...
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... heard of something that was valuable in himself , and expected a paradise which she pro- mised as the reward of his merit . Thus were we drawn to follow her , till she should bring us where it was to be bestowed ; and it was observable ...
... heard of something that was valuable in himself , and expected a paradise which she pro- mised as the reward of his merit . Thus were we drawn to follow her , till she should bring us where it was to be bestowed ; and it was observable ...
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... heard a voice in the crowd bemoaning the condition of man- kind , which is thus managed by the breath of Opinion , deluded by Error , fired by Self - Conceit , and given up to be trained in all the courses of Vanity , till Scorn or ...
... heard a voice in the crowd bemoaning the condition of man- kind , which is thus managed by the breath of Opinion , deluded by Error , fired by Self - Conceit , and given up to be trained in all the courses of Vanity , till Scorn or ...
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Alexander Chalmers. mighty noise was heard without , and the door was blackened by a numerous train of harpies crowding in upon us . Folly and Broken - Credit were seen in the house before they entered . Trouble , Shame , Infamy , Scorn ...
Alexander Chalmers. mighty noise was heard without , and the door was blackened by a numerous train of harpies crowding in upon us . Folly and Broken - Credit were seen in the house before they entered . Trouble , Shame , Infamy , Scorn ...
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Alexander Chalmers. poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . ' The middle condition seems to be the most ad- vantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the sup- plying ...
Alexander Chalmers. poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . ' The middle condition seems to be the most ad- vantageously situated for the gaining of wisdom . Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the sup- plying ...
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Página 56 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
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