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Page 29
... inhabitants , as he expresses it . The ill nature appears , in his endeavouring to discover satire , where I intended no such thing , but quite the re- verse : the good sense is this ; that drawing too good a character of any one is a ...
... inhabitants , as he expresses it . The ill nature appears , in his endeavouring to discover satire , where I intended no such thing , but quite the re- verse : the good sense is this ; that drawing too good a character of any one is a ...
Page 124
... inhabitants of London and Paris , pay dearer for sugar than those of Vienna , a thousand miles from the sea ; because their sugar costs not only the price they pay for it by the pound , but all they pay in taxes to maintain the fleets ...
... inhabitants of London and Paris , pay dearer for sugar than those of Vienna , a thousand miles from the sea ; because their sugar costs not only the price they pay for it by the pound , but all they pay in taxes to maintain the fleets ...
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... inhabitants of this bush , or my philosophical studies , for the benefit of our race in general ! for in politics ( what can laws do with- out morals ? ) our present race of ephemera will , in a course of minutes , become corrupt , like ...
... inhabitants of this bush , or my philosophical studies , for the benefit of our race in general ! for in politics ( what can laws do with- out morals ? ) our present race of ephemera will , in a course of minutes , become corrupt , like ...
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... inhabitants of South America in their last great earthquake ; that noise coming from a place some degrees north of Lima , and being traced by inquiry quite down to Buenos Ayres , proceeded regularly from north to south at the rate of ...
... inhabitants of South America in their last great earthquake ; that noise coming from a place some degrees north of Lima , and being traced by inquiry quite down to Buenos Ayres , proceeded regularly from north to south at the rate of ...
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... inhabitants , & c . formed on observations made upor the bills of mortality , christenings , & c . of populous cities , will not suit countries ; nor will tables , form- ed on observations made on full settled old coun- tries , as ...
... inhabitants , & c . formed on observations made upor the bills of mortality , christenings , & c . of populous cities , will not suit countries ; nor will tables , form- ed on observations made on full settled old coun- tries , as ...
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