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... resentment than of gratitude : it is not only to many more pleasing to recollect those faults which place others below them than those virtues by which they are themselves comparatively de- pressed , but it is likewise more casy to ...
... resentment than of gratitude : it is not only to many more pleasing to recollect those faults which place others below them than those virtues by which they are themselves comparatively de- pressed , but it is likewise more casy to ...
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... resentment of the city was afterwards raised by some accounts that had been spread of the satire ; and he was informed that some of the mer- chants intended to pay the allowance which the law required , and to detain him a prisoner at ...
... resentment of the city was afterwards raised by some accounts that had been spread of the satire ; and he was informed that some of the mer- chants intended to pay the allowance which the law required , and to detain him a prisoner at ...
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... resentment ; the book never became much the subject of conversation ; some read it as a contemporary history , and some perhaps as a model of epistolary language ; but those who read it did not talk of it . Not much there- fore was ...
... resentment ; the book never became much the subject of conversation ; some read it as a contemporary history , and some perhaps as a model of epistolary language ; but those who read it did not talk of it . Not much there- fore was ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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