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... paffions , had been so much agitated by the events of the day , that we had no fooner parted from honeft Abrahams , than he began to comment upon the lucky incident of our rencontre with the old gentleman at the comedy ; he feemed ...
... paffions , had been so much agitated by the events of the day , that we had no fooner parted from honeft Abrahams , than he began to comment upon the lucky incident of our rencontre with the old gentleman at the comedy ; he feemed ...
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... paffions had now taken entire poffeffion of my heart , and I furrendered myself to it without a struggle : still there was a consciousness about me , that funk me in my own efteem , and when I met the eye of a man , whom I had fecretly ...
... paffions had now taken entire poffeffion of my heart , and I furrendered myself to it without a struggle : still there was a consciousness about me , that funk me in my own efteem , and when I met the eye of a man , whom I had fecretly ...
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... paffions , which has fallen into my hands , the following lines upon Envy , as coinciding with my fubject , fhall conclude this paper . ENVY . " Oh ! never let me fee that shape again , Exile me rather to fome favage den , " Far from ...
... paffions , which has fallen into my hands , the following lines upon Envy , as coinciding with my fubject , fhall conclude this paper . ENVY . " Oh ! never let me fee that shape again , Exile me rather to fome favage den , " Far from ...
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... paf- fions I can understand the characters of Theo phraftus , and am entertained by his sketches ; but when your profound thinkers take the fubject in hand , they appear to me to dive to the bottom of the deep in search of that , which ...
... paf- fions I can understand the characters of Theo phraftus , and am entertained by his sketches ; but when your profound thinkers take the fubject in hand , they appear to me to dive to the bottom of the deep in search of that , which ...
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... paffions , which they who really feel them , are not fo forward to confefs . When Mr. Locke in his Effay on the Human Understanding defcribes all pity as partaking of contempt , I cannot acknowledge that he is Speaking of pity , as I ...
... paffions , which they who really feel them , are not fo forward to confefs . When Mr. Locke in his Effay on the Human Understanding defcribes all pity as partaking of contempt , I cannot acknowledge that he is Speaking of pity , as I ...
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