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Page 10
... obliging us to regard him with a kind of veneration . His aspect is sweetened with hu- manity and benevolence , and at the same time em- boldened with resolution , equally free from diffident bashfulness and an unbecoming assurance ...
... obliging us to regard him with a kind of veneration . His aspect is sweetened with hu- manity and benevolence , and at the same time em- boldened with resolution , equally free from diffident bashfulness and an unbecoming assurance ...
Page 11
... obliged to blush , and feel the confusion of finding himself detected in the meanness of a falsehood . He never contrives ill against his neighbour , and , therefore , is never seen with a louring , suspicious aspect . A mixture of ...
... obliged to blush , and feel the confusion of finding himself detected in the meanness of a falsehood . He never contrives ill against his neighbour , and , therefore , is never seen with a louring , suspicious aspect . A mixture of ...
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... obliging . " When you visit a person of quality ( says he ) and have talked over your business , or the compli- ments , or whatever concern brought you thither , he makes a sign to have things served in for the enter- tainment , which ...
... obliging . " When you visit a person of quality ( says he ) and have talked over your business , or the compli- ments , or whatever concern brought you thither , he makes a sign to have things served in for the enter- tainment , which ...
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... obliged those , who were living , and knew where they had formerly hid any , to take it up , and use it in their own necessary affairs : and as to all the rest , which was buried by pirates and others in old times , who were never like ...
... obliged those , who were living , and knew where they had formerly hid any , to take it up , and use it in their own necessary affairs : and as to all the rest , which was buried by pirates and others in old times , who were never like ...
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... obliged by reason to take as much care for our fu- ture as our present happiness , and not to build one upon the ruins of the other : but if , through the strength and power of a present passion , and through want of attending to ...
... obliged by reason to take as much care for our fu- ture as our present happiness , and not to build one upon the ruins of the other : but if , through the strength and power of a present passion , and through want of attending to ...
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