The Pelican Book of English Prose: Eighteenth-century prose, 1700-80; edited by D.W. JeffersonMiddlesex] Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... seems to drop by chance , though it falls into its proper place . Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy , animated and vigorous ; what is little is gay ; what is great is splendid . . . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ...
... seems to drop by chance , though it falls into its proper place . Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy , animated and vigorous ; what is little is gay ; what is great is splendid . . . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ...
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... seems not to be confined to animals of the same species ; for we know a doe , still alive , that was brought up from a little fawn with a dairy of cows ; with them it goes a - field , and with them it returns to the yard . The dogs of ...
... seems not to be confined to animals of the same species ; for we know a doe , still alive , that was brought up from a little fawn with a dairy of cows ; with them it goes a - field , and with them it returns to the yard . The dogs of ...
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... seems superior . We dis- cern not his course , we see no connection of cause and effect , we are rapt in ignorant ... seem applicable to man ; but it is really astonishing that a mere human being , a part of humanity only , should so ...
... seems superior . We dis- cern not his course , we see no connection of cause and effect , we are rapt in ignorant ... seem applicable to man ; but it is really astonishing that a mere human being , a part of humanity only , should so ...
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