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coat, or pinched hat are sure to receive no quarter. If they meet no foreigner
however to fight with, they are in such cases generally content with beating each
other. The rich, as they have more sensibility, are operated upon with greater ...
coat, or pinched hat are sure to receive no quarter. If they meet no foreigner
however to fight with, they are in such cases generally content with beating each
other. The rich, as they have more sensibility, are operated upon with greater ...
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Every favour a man receives in some measure sinks him below his dignity, and in
proportion to the value of the benefit, ... It is thus with the feeling mind; but there
are some who, born without any share of sensibility, receive favour after favour, ...
Every favour a man receives in some measure sinks him below his dignity, and in
proportion to the value of the benefit, ... It is thus with the feeling mind; but there
are some who, born without any share of sensibility, receive favour after favour, ...
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To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame ; serenity, health, and
affluence attend the desire of rising by labour; misery, repentance, and disrespect
that of succeeding by extorted benevolence ; the man who can thank himself ...
To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame ; serenity, health, and
affluence attend the desire of rising by labour; misery, repentance, and disrespect
that of succeeding by extorted benevolence ; the man who can thank himself ...
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A character of this kind generally receives company in his study, in all the
pensive formality of slippers, night-gown, and ... academies, and institutions,
where they regularly mect to give and receive a little instruction and a great deal
of praise.
A character of this kind generally receives company in his study, in all the
pensive formality of slippers, night-gown, and ... academies, and institutions,
where they regularly mect to give and receive a little instruction and a great deal
of praise.
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... our courtiers would fill up the necessary ceremonies of a court better than
those of Europe; would be contented with receiving large sa” laries for doing little;
whereas some of this country are at present discontented though they receive
large ...
... our courtiers would fill up the necessary ceremonies of a court better than
those of Europe; would be contented with receiving large sa” laries for doing little;
whereas some of this country are at present discontented though they receive
large ...
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