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... reafon , among others , they forbad them under pain of death , to be present at the Olympic games , not- withstanding these were the public diverfions of all Greece . As our English women excel thofe of all nations in beauty , they ...
... reafon , among others , they forbad them under pain of death , to be present at the Olympic games , not- withstanding these were the public diverfions of all Greece . As our English women excel thofe of all nations in beauty , they ...
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... reafon , when my friends take a furvey of my library , they are very much furprised to find upon the fhelf of folios , two long band - boxes ftanding upright among my books ; till I let them fee that they are both of them lined with ...
... reafon , when my friends take a furvey of my library , they are very much furprised to find upon the fhelf of folios , two long band - boxes ftanding upright among my books ; till I let them fee that they are both of them lined with ...
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... reafon but because it is a copy of nature . There is even a defpicable fimplicity in the verfe ; and yet because the fentiments appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward ...
... reafon but because it is a copy of nature . There is even a defpicable fimplicity in the verfe ; and yet because the fentiments appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward ...
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... reafon for his refentment ; and I know no evil which touches all mankind fo much as this of the misbehaviour of fervants . The complaint of this letter runs wholly upon men - fervants ; and I can attribute the licenti- oufness which has ...
... reafon for his refentment ; and I know no evil which touches all mankind fo much as this of the misbehaviour of fervants . The complaint of this letter runs wholly upon men - fervants ; and I can attribute the licenti- oufness which has ...
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... reafon ( fays Plato ) that the fouls of the dead appear frequently in cemeteries , and ho- ver about the places where their bodies are buried , as ftill hankering after their old brutal pleasures 50 N ° 90 . THE SPECTATOR .
... reafon ( fays Plato ) that the fouls of the dead appear frequently in cemeteries , and ho- ver about the places where their bodies are buried , as ftill hankering after their old brutal pleasures 50 N ° 90 . THE SPECTATOR .
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