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If they find themselves obliged to write two “ lines more polite than ordinary, their
pencil then “ seems as heavy as a mill-stone, and they spend ten “ years in
turning two or three periods with propri“ ety. “ These persons are most at a loss
when ...
If they find themselves obliged to write two “ lines more polite than ordinary, their
pencil then “ seems as heavy as a mill-stone, and they spend ten “ years in
turning two or three periods with propri“ ety. “ These persons are most at a loss
when ...
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Plautus the comic poet was better off; he had two trades, he was a poet for his
diversion, and helped to turn a mill in order to gain a livelihood. Terence was a
slave, and Boethius died in gaol. Among the Italians, Paulo Burghese, almost as
...
Plautus the comic poet was better off; he had two trades, he was a poet for his
diversion, and helped to turn a mill in order to gain a livelihood. Terence was a
slave, and Boethius died in gaol. Among the Italians, Paulo Burghese, almost as
...
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each other. The world becomes very little the better or the wiser, for knowing what
is the peculiar food of an insect, that is itself the food of another, which in its turn
is eaten by a third; but there are men who have studied themselves into an habit
...
each other. The world becomes very little the better or the wiser, for knowing what
is the peculiar food of an insect, that is itself the food of another, which in its turn
is eaten by a third; but there are men who have studied themselves into an habit
...
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Our discourse happened to turn upon the different treatment of the fair sex here
and in Asia, with the influence of beauty in refining our manners and improving
our conversation. I soon perceived he was strongly prejudiced in favour of the ...
Our discourse happened to turn upon the different treatment of the fair sex here
and in Asia, with the influence of beauty in refining our manners and improving
our conversation. I soon perceived he was strongly prejudiced in favour of the ...
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Compilations of this kind are chiefly designed for such as either want leisure, skill
, or fortune, to choose for themselves; for persons whose professions turn them to
different pursuits, or who, not yet arrived at sufficient maturity, require a guide to ...
Compilations of this kind are chiefly designed for such as either want leisure, skill
, or fortune, to choose for themselves; for persons whose professions turn them to
different pursuits, or who, not yet arrived at sufficient maturity, require a guide to ...
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