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" I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and... "
The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and ... - Page lxxxii
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1786 - 516 pages
...fafhionable vices, which 3Mr" BICKERSTAFF has dpne with a freedom of fpirit that woutd " have loft both its beauty and efficacy had it been pretended to " by Mr. STEELE." — With this laudable fyirit of unijaring cenfure Mr BICKERSTAFF expofes here to ridicule and abhorrence...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 5

British essayists - 1803 - 306 pages
...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but au indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met •with is the best proof of its value; but I should...
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And with a greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstatf has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had...
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The British Essayists, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 406 pages
...make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstan has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have...beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. STEKLE. From a scarce pampblet in the Lambeth library supposed to be written by GAY, we have authority...
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The British Essayists;: Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking |ire\ ailing ai;d fashionable rices, which Mr. BirktrstafV has done with a freedom of spirit, that...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 304 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value; but I should...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1809 - 382 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its- beauty * To print by subscription was, for some time, & practice peculiar to the English. The first considerable...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4

British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value ; but I should...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and ..., Volume 5

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 288 pages
...but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value ; but I should...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical ..., Volumes 5-6

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.-, As to the work itself, the acceptance it has inet with is the best proof of its value ; but I should...
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