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... manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy ...
... manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy ...
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... manners , than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to ...
... manners , than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to ...
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... manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be ...
... manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be ...
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... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed , but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed , but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
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... manners very little has been communicated , and whose lot it has been to be much oftener mentioned by enemies than by friends . He was the son of Robert Blackmore , of Corsham in Wiltshire , styled by Wood Gentleman , and supposed to ...
... manners very little has been communicated , and whose lot it has been to be much oftener mentioned by enemies than by friends . He was the son of Robert Blackmore , of Corsham in Wiltshire , styled by Wood Gentleman , and supposed to ...
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