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BY A SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN . in We shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain any other caufe , if we can be numbered among the writers who give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOL .
BY A SOCIETY OF GENTLEMEN . in We shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain any other caufe , if we can be numbered among the writers who give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOL .
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gefted , with full force , the horrible idea of a fellowcreature deprived of the decent honours of fepulture , and configned , with every mark of execration , to the grinning fcorn of public infamy . The heath , about fifty years ago ...
gefted , with full force , the horrible idea of a fellowcreature deprived of the decent honours of fepulture , and configned , with every mark of execration , to the grinning fcorn of public infamy . The heath , about fifty years ago ...
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I furveyed this place with particular attention , on account of the handfome epithets with which Mr. Gibbon , the celebrated hiftorian , has honoured it . In his own life , when Captain in the Hampshire militia , he mentions his paffing ...
I furveyed this place with particular attention , on account of the handfome epithets with which Mr. Gibbon , the celebrated hiftorian , has honoured it . In his own life , when Captain in the Hampshire militia , he mentions his paffing ...
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... calculated to influence the bulk of mankind . Thefe require fomething more fubftantial as a foundation for action , and are actuated rather by motives ariling arifing from views of honour and intereft , than by 50 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
... calculated to influence the bulk of mankind . Thefe require fomething more fubftantial as a foundation for action , and are actuated rather by motives ariling arifing from views of honour and intereft , than by 50 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
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arifing from views of honour and intereft , than by those deduced from the beauty of virtue . Stoical fpeculations may be productive of Stoical apathy ; but little or no advantage will be found to refult from them , either to fociety in ...
arifing from views of honour and intereft , than by those deduced from the beauty of virtue . Stoical fpeculations may be productive of Stoical apathy ; but little or no advantage will be found to refult from them , either to fociety in ...
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