The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... conversation , and all those social entertainments , which are not only innocent , but laudable ; as if mirth was made for reprobates , and cheerfulness of heart denied those who are the only persons that have a proper title to it . He ...
... conversation , and all those social entertainments , which are not only innocent , but laudable ; as if mirth was made for reprobates , and cheerfulness of heart denied those who are the only persons that have a proper title to it . He ...
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... conversation , and the most agreeable intercourses of life ; and , by consequence , excludes them from the most probable means of conversion . If , in the last place , we consider what providential reason may be assigned for these three ...
... conversation , and the most agreeable intercourses of life ; and , by consequence , excludes them from the most probable means of conversion . If , in the last place , we consider what providential reason may be assigned for these three ...
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... conversation is so infected with them , that a party - lie is grown as fashionable an entertainment as a lively catch or a merry story : the truth of it is , half the great talkers in the nation would be struck dumb , were this fountain ...
... conversation is so infected with them , that a party - lie is grown as fashionable an entertainment as a lively catch or a merry story : the truth of it is , half the great talkers in the nation would be struck dumb , were this fountain ...
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... conversations , sets himself above the author of a quarto ; the author of a quarto above the author of an octavo ; and so on , by a gradual descent and subordination , to an author in twenty - fours . This dis- tinction is so well ...
... conversations , sets himself above the author of a quarto ; the author of a quarto above the author of an octavo ; and so on , by a gradual descent and subordination , to an author in twenty - fours . This dis- tinction is so well ...
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... conversation which either long command the attention , or strike with the violence of a sudden passion , or occasion the burst of laughter which accompanies humour . I have sometimes fancied that the mind is in this case like a ...
... conversation which either long command the attention , or strike with the violence of a sudden passion , or occasion the burst of laughter which accompanies humour . I have sometimes fancied that the mind is in this case like a ...
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