The Idler, Том 2T. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent Garden, 1767 |
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... 275 280 103. Horrour of the Laft . ADDITIONAL ESSAYS . Efay on Epitaphs . Differtation on the Epitaphs written by РОРЕ , 287 302 Bravery of the ENGLISH Common Soldiers , 325 THE IDLE R. No 53. Saturday , April 21 . CONTENT S. 4.
... 275 280 103. Horrour of the Laft . ADDITIONAL ESSAYS . Efay on Epitaphs . Differtation on the Epitaphs written by РОРЕ , 287 302 Bravery of the ENGLISH Common Soldiers , 325 THE IDLE R. No 53. Saturday , April 21 . CONTENT S. 4.
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... common cause of Lite- rature . HAVING been long a Student , I thought myself qualified in time to become an Author . My enquiries have been much diversified and far extended , and not finding my genius di- recting me by irresistible ...
... common cause of Lite- rature . HAVING been long a Student , I thought myself qualified in time to become an Author . My enquiries have been much diversified and far extended , and not finding my genius di- recting me by irresistible ...
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... common to all the reft . Civil Hiftory may be partially ftudied , the revolutions of one nation may be neglected by another , but after that in which all have an intereft , all must be inquifitive . No man can have funk fo far into ...
... common to all the reft . Civil Hiftory may be partially ftudied , the revolutions of one nation may be neglected by another , but after that in which all have an intereft , all must be inquifitive . No man can have funk fo far into ...
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... common eyes pass unregarded , will ten times treble its price in the imagination of philofophers . Beauty is far from operating upon collectors as upon low and vulgar minds , even where beauty might be thought the only quality that ...
... common eyes pass unregarded , will ten times treble its price in the imagination of philofophers . Beauty is far from operating upon collectors as upon low and vulgar minds , even where beauty might be thought the only quality that ...
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Samuel Johnson. can be imagined for which it fhould be pre- ferred to common veffels of common clay . THE fate of Prints and Coins is equally in- explicable . Some Prints are treasured up as in- eftimably valuable , because the ...
Samuel Johnson. can be imagined for which it fhould be pre- ferred to common veffels of common clay . THE fate of Prints and Coins is equally in- explicable . Some Prints are treasured up as in- eftimably valuable , because the ...
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