The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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Oliver Goldsmith Samuel Rose. Letter LXXXVI . The folly of the Western parts of Europe , in employing the Rus- sians to fight their battles , LXXXII . The ladies advised to get husbands . A story to this purpose ,. LXXXVIII . The folly ...
Oliver Goldsmith Samuel Rose. Letter LXXXVI . The folly of the Western parts of Europe , in employing the Rus- sians to fight their battles , LXXXII . The ladies advised to get husbands . A story to this purpose ,. LXXXVIII . The folly ...
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... Europe ! Those who came first , while either state as yet was barbarous , carried all the repu tation away . Authors , as the age refined , became more numerous , and their numbers destroyed their fame . It is but natural , therefore ...
... Europe ! Those who came first , while either state as yet was barbarous , carried all the repu tation away . Authors , as the age refined , became more numerous , and their numbers destroyed their fame . It is but natural , therefore ...
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... Europe together , a spirit of freedom and reason reigns among the people ; they have been often known to act like fools , they are generally found to think like men . The only danger that attends a multiplicity of pub- lications , is ...
... Europe together , a spirit of freedom and reason reigns among the people ; they have been often known to act like fools , they are generally found to think like men . The only danger that attends a multiplicity of pub- lications , is ...
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... Europe is equally so ; each laughs at each , and the Asiatic at all . I may upon another occasion , point out what is most strikingly absurd in other countries ; I shall at pre- sent confine myself only to France . The first national ...
... Europe is equally so ; each laughs at each , and the Asiatic at all . I may upon another occasion , point out what is most strikingly absurd in other countries ; I shall at pre- sent confine myself only to France . The first national ...
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... European barbarity ; the female Tartar dressed in sheep skins , is in far more conven ient drapery . Their own writers have sometimes in veighed against the absurdity of this fashion , but per haps it has never been ridiculed so well as ...
... European barbarity ; the female Tartar dressed in sheep skins , is in far more conven ient drapery . Their own writers have sometimes in veighed against the absurdity of this fashion , but per haps it has never been ridiculed so well as ...
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