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Pagina 46
... racter . His remarks result from the nature and reason of things , and are formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only ...
... racter . His remarks result from the nature and reason of things , and are formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only ...
Pagina 89
... racter attained high dignities in the church ; but he still retained the friendship and frequented the conversation of a very numerous and splendid set of acquaintance . He died July 16 , 1736 , in the 66th year of his age . Of his ...
... racter attained high dignities in the church ; but he still retained the friendship and frequented the conversation of a very numerous and splendid set of acquaintance . He died July 16 , 1736 , in the 66th year of his age . Of his ...
Pagina 96
... racter , he is said to have been a man of gay con- versation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without censure . HAMMOND . OF Mr. HAMMOND , though he be well remem- bered as a man esteemed ...
... racter , he is said to have been a man of gay con- versation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without censure . HAMMOND . OF Mr. HAMMOND , though he be well remem- bered as a man esteemed ...
Pagina 125
... characters which did not entitle them to much credit ; a common strumpet , a woman by whom strumpets were entertained , and a man by whom they were supported ; and the cha- racter of Savage was by several persons of distinc- tion ...
... characters which did not entitle them to much credit ; a common strumpet , a woman by whom strumpets were entertained , and a man by whom they were supported ; and the cha- racter of Savage was by several persons of distinc- tion ...
Pagina 149
... racter of a distressed poet , he very easily discover- ed , that distress was not a proper subject for mer- riment , nor topic of invective . He was then able to discern , that if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be ...
... racter of a distressed poet , he very easily discover- ed , that distress was not a proper subject for mer- riment , nor topic of invective . He was then able to discern , that if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be ...
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