The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... mean time penal laws be- " came numerous , almost every person in the state " unknowingly at different times offended , and was 66 every moment subject to a malicious prosecution . " In fact , penal laws , instead of preventing crimes ...
... mean time penal laws be- " came numerous , almost every person in the state " unknowingly at different times offended , and was 66 every moment subject to a malicious prosecution . " In fact , penal laws , instead of preventing crimes ...
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... means , not of satisfying justice , but of satiating avarice . A mercenary magistrate who is rewarded in pro- portion , not to his integrity , but to the number he convicts , must be a person of the most unblemished character , or he ...
... means , not of satisfying justice , but of satiating avarice . A mercenary magistrate who is rewarded in pro- portion , not to his integrity , but to the number he convicts , must be a person of the most unblemished character , or he ...
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... means every one knows - her clothes may be spoiled . The ladies here make no scruple to laugh at the smallness of a Chinese slipper , but I fancy our wives at China would have a more real cause of laughter , could they but see the ...
... means every one knows - her clothes may be spoiled . The ladies here make no scruple to laugh at the smallness of a Chinese slipper , but I fancy our wives at China would have a more real cause of laughter , could they but see the ...
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... He and his countrymen are tenants , not ri- yals , in the same inexhaustible forest ; the increased possessions of one by no means diminishes the expec tations arising from equal assiduity in another ; there are. 50 CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
... He and his countrymen are tenants , not ri- yals , in the same inexhaustible forest ; the increased possessions of one by no means diminishes the expec tations arising from equal assiduity in another ; there are. 50 CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
Seite 63
... the stage . Mistake me not , I do not mean pieces to be acted on it , but panegyrical verses on the performers , for that is the most universal method of writing for the stage at present . It is the business of the. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
... the stage . Mistake me not , I do not mean pieces to be acted on it , but panegyrical verses on the performers , for that is the most universal method of writing for the stage at present . It is the business of the. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
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