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... pleasure of calling them my own ; and they are now so used to being here that they will be content nowhere else . If she would have been so kind as to have moderated her visits to ten times a day , and stayed but half an hour at a time ...
... pleasure of calling them my own ; and they are now so used to being here that they will be content nowhere else . If she would have been so kind as to have moderated her visits to ten times a day , and stayed but half an hour at a time ...
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... pleasure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief , to see their neighbours calumniated . But if I myself was actually the worst man in the province , and ...
... pleasure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief , to see their neighbours calumniated . But if I myself was actually the worst man in the province , and ...
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... pleasures an author can have , is , certainly , the hearing his works applauded . The hiding from the world our names , while we publish our thoughts , is so absolutely necessary to this self- gratification , that I hope my well ...
... pleasures an author can have , is , certainly , the hearing his works applauded . The hiding from the world our names , while we publish our thoughts , is so absolutely necessary to this self- gratification , that I hope my well ...
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... PLEASURE . From the Pennsylvania Gazette , No. 84 , June 23 , 1730 . Philocles . My friend Horatio ! I am very glad to see you ; prithee how came such a man as you alone ? and musing too ? What misfortune in your pleasures has sent you ...
... PLEASURE . From the Pennsylvania Gazette , No. 84 , June 23 , 1730 . Philocles . My friend Horatio ! I am very glad to see you ; prithee how came such a man as you alone ? and musing too ? What misfortune in your pleasures has sent you ...
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... pleasure , I have oft observed in you an honest heart , and a mind strongly bent towards virtue . I wish , from my ... pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth . Hor . That depends all upon opinion . Who shall judge what the ...
... pleasure , I have oft observed in you an honest heart , and a mind strongly bent towards virtue . I wish , from my ... pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth . Hor . That depends all upon opinion . Who shall judge what the ...
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