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Pagina v
... able to trifle occasionally Craig . 61. Account of some Peculiarities in Mr.Umphraville -of Attachment to inanimate Objects , and to Home Mackenzie . 62. Of romancing in Conversation — Anecdotes of a French Company , in a Letter from ...
... able to trifle occasionally Craig . 61. Account of some Peculiarities in Mr.Umphraville -of Attachment to inanimate Objects , and to Home Mackenzie . 62. Of romancing in Conversation — Anecdotes of a French Company , in a Letter from ...
Pagina 2
... able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of letters ...
... able to judge , whether making what is called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of letters ...
Pagina 18
... able to fiddle away a complete summer's day with much comfort and delight . ' The occupations I have hitherto mentioned , it will be observed , are chiefly of the domestic kind . I could enumerate a variety of schemes for the ...
... able to fiddle away a complete summer's day with much comfort and delight . ' The occupations I have hitherto mentioned , it will be observed , are chiefly of the domestic kind . I could enumerate a variety of schemes for the ...
Pagina 20
... able to trifle upon occasion . No character can possibly be more contemptible than that of a talk ing , empty , giggling fool , who is incapable of fixing his attention upon any thing that is important , and whose mind , like a ...
... able to trifle upon occasion . No character can possibly be more contemptible than that of a talk ing , empty , giggling fool , who is incapable of fixing his attention upon any thing that is important , and whose mind , like a ...
Pagina 22
... able to destroy . There is no anecdote in antiquity which I have read with greater pleasure than that of Scipio and Lælius , related by the eloquent pen of Cicero , and put into the mouth of Crassus : Sæpe ex socero meo audivi ( says ...
... able to destroy . There is no anecdote in antiquity which I have read with greater pleasure than that of Scipio and Lælius , related by the eloquent pen of Cicero , and put into the mouth of Crassus : Sæpe ex socero meo audivi ( says ...
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