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... virtue , 7. Address to Art , 8. Flattery , 9. The absent man , 10. The monk , 11. On the head dress of the ladies , 13. Unele Toby's benevolence , 14. Story of the siege of Calais , 12. On the present and a future state , Fool of ...
... virtue , 7. Address to Art , 8. Flattery , 9. The absent man , 10. The monk , 11. On the head dress of the ladies , 13. Unele Toby's benevolence , 14. Story of the siege of Calais , 12. On the present and a future state , Fool of ...
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... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appear- ance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unuse fully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of orna- ment ...
... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appear- ance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unuse fully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of orna- ment ...
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... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the vengeance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrow into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the vengeance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrow into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
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... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have Not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have Not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
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... virtue or their vice , to educa- tion as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self - conceit and there she stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a boy ...
... virtue or their vice , to educa- tion as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self - conceit and there she stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a boy ...
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