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... thing combines to aggra- vate the too real evils of a dire calamity , which subverts every thing by the excruciating tor- tures of the imagination , which is distressed and confounded , and loses , in the contemplation of this disorder ...
... thing combines to aggra- vate the too real evils of a dire calamity , which subverts every thing by the excruciating tor- tures of the imagination , which is distressed and confounded , and loses , in the contemplation of this disorder ...
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... thing of a doubtful nature occurs , he ge- nerally adds , " this is as I have heard the fact related , " or he produces his authority . Mr. Hume , whose classical erudition I have on a former occasion presumed to question , asserts that ...
... thing of a doubtful nature occurs , he ge- nerally adds , " this is as I have heard the fact related , " or he produces his authority . Mr. Hume , whose classical erudition I have on a former occasion presumed to question , asserts that ...
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... thing can be more interesting , pleasant , and entertaining . It afforded , undoubtedly , the model for Cæsar's Commentaries , but is a more interesting and finer composition . Xenophon never rises to the sublime , but is always chaste ...
... thing can be more interesting , pleasant , and entertaining . It afforded , undoubtedly , the model for Cæsar's Commentaries , but is a more interesting and finer composition . Xenophon never rises to the sublime , but is always chaste ...
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... thing of this nature , but words cannot de- scribe mere objects of sight ; even a portrait can scarcely be drawn in words , so as to ex- press a real likeness . A traveller will be te- dious if he describes every thing he sees ; se ...
... thing of this nature , but words cannot de- scribe mere objects of sight ; even a portrait can scarcely be drawn in words , so as to ex- press a real likeness . A traveller will be te- dious if he describes every thing he sees ; se ...
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... thing that appeared to me more dis- gusting . Madame Sevigny has also been much extolled ; but I must differ from those who find much pleasure in drudging through the long series of her letters . I once attempted the task , but I found ...
... thing that appeared to me more dis- gusting . Madame Sevigny has also been much extolled ; but I must differ from those who find much pleasure in drudging through the long series of her letters . I once attempted the task , but I found ...
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