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Permit me “ then, O Chinvang, to wear out the wretched remains “ of life in my
former prison; the walls of my dun“geon are to me more pleasing than the most
splen“ did palace : I have not long to live, and shall be un“ happy except I spend
the ...
Permit me “ then, O Chinvang, to wear out the wretched remains “ of life in my
former prison; the walls of my dun“geon are to me more pleasing than the most
splen“ did palace : I have not long to live, and shall be un“ happy except I spend
the ...
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious;
but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better
for immediate use; the former are often prized above their intrinsic value, and ...
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious;
but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better
for immediate use; the former are often prized above their intrinsic value, and ...
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... attempted to evade the ordinances alrea“ dy established; their practices,
therefore, soon ' brought on a new law levelled against them ; but the same
degree of cunning which had taught the knave to evade the former statutes,
taught him to ...
... attempted to evade the ordinances alrea“ dy established; their practices,
therefore, soon ' brought on a new law levelled against them ; but the same
degree of cunning which had taught the knave to evade the former statutes,
taught him to ...
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But frithee, continued I, as we set forward, what reasons have you to think an
affair at last concluded, which has given so many former disaffaintments * My
lawyer tells me, returned he, that I have Salkeld and Ventris strong in my favour,
and ...
But frithee, continued I, as we set forward, what reasons have you to think an
affair at last concluded, which has given so many former disaffaintments * My
lawyer tells me, returned he, that I have Salkeld and Ventris strong in my favour,
and ...
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To increase his distress, every new obligation but adds to the former load which
kept the vigorous mind from rising ; till at last, elastic no longer, it shapes itself to
constraint, and puts on habitual servility. It is thus with the feeling mind; but there
...
To increase his distress, every new obligation but adds to the former load which
kept the vigorous mind from rising ; till at last, elastic no longer, it shapes itself to
constraint, and puts on habitual servility. It is thus with the feeling mind; but there
...
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