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Page 85
... live in disproportion to his spiritual means : ' His word would pass for more than he was worth ' ; the usurious ... Live like yourself ' , and he now lives his life to its capacity , no longer self - denying ; and still there is rule ...
... live in disproportion to his spiritual means : ' His word would pass for more than he was worth ' ; the usurious ... Live like yourself ' , and he now lives his life to its capacity , no longer self - denying ; and still there is rule ...
Page 95
... live with ease : Shou'd such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise ...
... live with ease : Shou'd such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise ...
Page 113
... live outside society and often have to prey on it to live ; his novels generally have a lower or lower - middle class milieu and portray ' Whiggish ' entrepreneurs . His characters are ' novel ' , not typical or ' what oft was thought ...
... live outside society and often have to prey on it to live ; his novels generally have a lower or lower - middle class milieu and portray ' Whiggish ' entrepreneurs . His characters are ' novel ' , not typical or ' what oft was thought ...
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