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... fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of foftening cenfure by apologies , or ...
... fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of foftening cenfure by apologies , or ...
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... fuch an em- ployment was in itself fufficiently irkfome and hazardous ; that none would be found fo malevolent as wantonly to add weight to the ftone of Sifyphus ; and that few en- deavours would be used to obftruct those advances to ...
... fuch an em- ployment was in itself fufficiently irkfome and hazardous ; that none would be found fo malevolent as wantonly to add weight to the ftone of Sifyphus ; and that few en- deavours would be used to obftruct those advances to ...
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... fuch difcoveries were made , and they were made whenever thefe faults were committed , Criticism refused the touch which conferred the fanction of immortality ; and , when the errors were frequent and grofs , reverfed the fceptre , and ...
... fuch difcoveries were made , and they were made whenever thefe faults were committed , Criticism refused the touch which conferred the fanction of immortality ; and , when the errors were frequent and grofs , reverfed the fceptre , and ...
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... fuch fcenes of the univerfal drama as may be the lot of any other man , young fpectators fix their eyes upon him with clofer attention , and hope , by obferving his behaviour and fuccefs , to regulate their own practices when they shall ...
... fuch fcenes of the univerfal drama as may be the lot of any other man , young fpectators fix their eyes upon him with clofer attention , and hope , by obferving his behaviour and fuccefs , to regulate their own practices when they shall ...
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... fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world ; and their re- femblance ought no more to be preferv- ed , than the art of murdering without pain . Some have advanced , without due at- tention to the confequences of this ...
... fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world ; and their re- femblance ought no more to be preferv- ed , than the art of murdering without pain . Some have advanced , without due at- tention to the confequences of this ...
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