Select British Classics, Том 34J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... things in their obvious sense ; but are putting words and sentences to the torture , to force confessions from them which their authors never meant , or if they had , would have de- served a whipping for . For this reason I take all the ...
... things in their obvious sense ; but are putting words and sentences to the torture , to force confessions from them which their authors never meant , or if they had , would have de- served a whipping for . For this reason I take all the ...
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... bring against them . They tell us that no handsome woman ever said a civil thing of one as handsome as herself : but , on the contrary , that it is always the de- S f ight of both to lessen the beauty and to detract 10 THE WORLD .
... bring against them . They tell us that no handsome woman ever said a civil thing of one as handsome as herself : but , on the contrary , that it is always the de- S f ight of both to lessen the beauty and to detract 10 THE WORLD .
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... thing excellent in nature or art , has a certain fixed point of perfection , proper to itself , which it cannot transgress without losing much of its beauty , or acquiring some blemish . The period which time puts to all mortal things ...
... thing excellent in nature or art , has a certain fixed point of perfection , proper to itself , which it cannot transgress without losing much of its beauty , or acquiring some blemish . The period which time puts to all mortal things ...
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... thing that proceeds from him . His plans are great , just and noble ; worthy the divine image he bears . His progression and execution , to a certain point , answerable to his designs ; but be- yond it , all is weakness , deformity and ...
... thing that proceeds from him . His plans are great , just and noble ; worthy the divine image he bears . His progression and execution , to a certain point , answerable to his designs ; but be- yond it , all is weakness , deformity and ...
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... thing useless . And as the Chinese knew gunpowder , the ancients the load - stone , and the moderns electricity , many years before they were applied to the benefit of mankind , it will not ap- pear strange if a noble use be at length ...
... thing useless . And as the Chinese knew gunpowder , the ancients the load - stone , and the moderns electricity , many years before they were applied to the benefit of mankind , it will not ap- pear strange if a noble use be at length ...
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Стр. 262 - All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.
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Стр. 176 - ... weaning his heart from the immoderate love of earthly things, and teaching him to revere the gods, and to place his whole trust and happiness in their government and protection.
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