The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... characters , or ways of living . For this reason I have often amused myself with speculations on the race of people called Jews , many of whom I have met with in most of the considerable towns I have passed through in the course of my ...
... characters , or ways of living . For this reason I have often amused myself with speculations on the race of people called Jews , many of whom I have met with in most of the considerable towns I have passed through in the course of my ...
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... characters and circumstances , and is in this respect both a reader and a composer . It is no wonder , therefore , that on such occa- sions , when the mind is thus pleased with itself , and amused with its own discoveries , it is highly ...
... characters and circumstances , and is in this respect both a reader and a composer . It is no wonder , therefore , that on such occa- sions , when the mind is thus pleased with itself , and amused with its own discoveries , it is highly ...
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... character of any of his contemporaries . In order , therefore , to put a stop to this absurd practice , I shall publish the following edict , by virtue of that specta- torial authority with which I stand invested . " WHEREAS the time of ...
... character of any of his contemporaries . In order , therefore , to put a stop to this absurd practice , I shall publish the following edict , by virtue of that specta- torial authority with which I stand invested . " WHEREAS the time of ...
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... converted rake . The sober character of the husband is dashed with the man of the town , and enlivened with those little cant phrases which have made my friend Will . often thought very pretty company 50 ADDISON'S WORKS . 30.
... converted rake . The sober character of the husband is dashed with the man of the town , and enlivened with those little cant phrases which have made my friend Will . often thought very pretty company 50 ADDISON'S WORKS . 30.
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... character of a polished language is perspicuity . One would , therefore , as much as may be , and when custom has not made them necessary , or sufficiently intelligible , always avoid them . sorts of rich stones . When I have got ...
... character of a polished language is perspicuity . One would , therefore , as much as may be , and when custom has not made them necessary , or sufficiently intelligible , always avoid them . sorts of rich stones . When I have got ...
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