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... fall . Where- fore , seeing the acts and events , which are the sub- jects of true history , are not of that amplitude as to content the mind of man ; poesy is ready at hand to feign acts more heroical . Because true history reports the ...
... fall . Where- fore , seeing the acts and events , which are the sub- jects of true history , are not of that amplitude as to content the mind of man ; poesy is ready at hand to feign acts more heroical . Because true history reports the ...
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... falls in with this natural greatness and dignity of human na- ture so much as religion , which does not only pro- mise the entire refinement of the mind , but the glo- rifying of the body , and the immortality of both . No. 109. TUESDAY ...
... falls in with this natural greatness and dignity of human na- ture so much as religion , which does not only pro- mise the entire refinement of the mind , but the glo- rifying of the body , and the immortality of both . No. 109. TUESDAY ...
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... falls , very often receives in his arms a coquette , with the refuse of an heart long before given away to a coxcomb . ** Having received from the society of Up- holders sundry complaints of the obstinate and refrac- tory behaviour of ...
... falls , very often receives in his arms a coquette , with the refuse of an heart long before given away to a coxcomb . ** Having received from the society of Up- holders sundry complaints of the obstinate and refrac- tory behaviour of ...
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... falling of a shower of rain , or the whistling of wind , at such a time , is apt to fill my thoughts with something aw- ful and solemn . I was in this disposition , when our bellman began his midnight homily , which he has been ...
... falling of a shower of rain , or the whistling of wind , at such a time , is apt to fill my thoughts with something aw- ful and solemn . I was in this disposition , when our bellman began his midnight homily , which he has been ...
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... falling off from those schemes of thinking , which conduce to the happiness and perfection of human nature . This evil comes upon us from the works of a few solemn blockheads , that meet together , with the zeal and seriousness of ...
... falling off from those schemes of thinking , which conduce to the happiness and perfection of human nature . This evil comes upon us from the works of a few solemn blockheads , that meet together , with the zeal and seriousness of ...
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