Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... manner that may advance an instructive knowledge of human nature . Thus , if variety be a charm , the work , with unity of plan , embraces a very great diversity of subject matter ; and , as a whole , forms a series of self - drawn ...
... manner that may advance an instructive knowledge of human nature . Thus , if variety be a charm , the work , with unity of plan , embraces a very great diversity of subject matter ; and , as a whole , forms a series of self - drawn ...
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... manners still better ; his criticism is therefore of that sound descrip- tion which unpremeditatedly illustrates the one in dis- cussing the points of the other . This art is said to be gra- dually becoming defunct : if so , less need ...
... manners still better ; his criticism is therefore of that sound descrip- tion which unpremeditatedly illustrates the one in dis- cussing the points of the other . This art is said to be gra- dually becoming defunct : if so , less need ...
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... manners or mercy as if they had two flails in their hands ; children at play with case - knives could not give you more apprehension of their doing one another a mischief ; and yet , when the contest has been over , the boobies have ...
... manners or mercy as if they had two flails in their hands ; children at play with case - knives could not give you more apprehension of their doing one another a mischief ; and yet , when the contest has been over , the boobies have ...
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... manner , are , as far as my judgment reaches , complete masters of it ; one of a more polite and extensive imagination , the other of a knowledge more closely useful to the business of life . The one gives you perpetual pleasure , and ...
... manner , are , as far as my judgment reaches , complete masters of it ; one of a more polite and extensive imagination , the other of a knowledge more closely useful to the business of life . The one gives you perpetual pleasure , and ...
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... manner of raising the laugh against me , than I could have felt from the smoothest flattery of a serious civility . Though wit flows from him with as much ease as common sense from another , he is so little elated with the advantage he ...
... manner of raising the laugh against me , than I could have felt from the smoothest flattery of a serious civility . Though wit flows from him with as much ease as common sense from another , he is so little elated with the advantage he ...
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