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Pagina 29
... nature has done for me , nor do I repine at fortune . I do not seek in men what they have of evil , that I may censure ; I only discover what they have ridiculous , that I may be amused . I feel a pleasure in detecting their fol- lies ...
... nature has done for me , nor do I repine at fortune . I do not seek in men what they have of evil , that I may censure ; I only discover what they have ridiculous , that I may be amused . I feel a pleasure in detecting their fol- lies ...
Pagina 31
... nature ; but they are not reconcilable to the feelings of the man of more generous dispositions , or who passes through life with the firm integrity of virtue . Even at court we find a Sully , a Malesherbes and a Clarendon , as well as ...
... nature ; but they are not reconcilable to the feelings of the man of more generous dispositions , or who passes through life with the firm integrity of virtue . Even at court we find a Sully , a Malesherbes and a Clarendon , as well as ...
Pagina 41
... nature hereunto congenerous ? C hath a voice which will in some measure agree with all good disposition . G Sol re ut , to be peevish and effemi- cliffs , to be of good parts , and fit for variety of employ- nate . Flats , a manly or ...
... nature hereunto congenerous ? C hath a voice which will in some measure agree with all good disposition . G Sol re ut , to be peevish and effemi- cliffs , to be of good parts , and fit for variety of employ- nate . Flats , a manly or ...
Pagina 54
... natural , and the other of artificial flowers . Art , in the labour of the mimetic wreath , had exquisitely emulated ... nature , and which the work of art . The sagacious So- lomon seemed perplexed ; yet to be vanquished , though in a ...
... natural , and the other of artificial flowers . Art , in the labour of the mimetic wreath , had exquisitely emulated ... nature , and which the work of art . The sagacious So- lomon seemed perplexed ; yet to be vanquished , though in a ...
Pagina 65
... nature of these flames . t It has happened frequently , that inquisitive men , exa- mining with a flambeau ancient ... nature alone , and without the aid of art . man . Pliny mentions an agate , in which appeared , formed by the hand of ...
... nature of these flames . t It has happened frequently , that inquisitive men , exa- mining with a flambeau ancient ... nature alone , and without the aid of art . man . Pliny mentions an agate , in which appeared , formed by the hand of ...
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