English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore H. Holt, 1933 - 929 Seiten |
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... vice , philoso- phers in wickedness , who can extract a pleasure to themselves in losing their understanding , and make themselves sick at heart for their diversion . If the history of this well - bred vice was to be written , ' twould ...
... vice , philoso- phers in wickedness , who can extract a pleasure to themselves in losing their understanding , and make themselves sick at heart for their diversion . If the history of this well - bred vice was to be written , ' twould ...
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... vice by scandalizing the in- former ; a man that is anything of a gentleman scorns it , and the poor still mimic the humour of the rich and hate an informer as they do the devil . ' Tis strange the gentlemen should be ashamed to detect ...
... vice by scandalizing the in- former ; a man that is anything of a gentleman scorns it , and the poor still mimic the humour of the rich and hate an informer as they do the devil . ' Tis strange the gentlemen should be ashamed to detect ...
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... vice by their own . practice ; would they but dash it out of countenance by disowning it ; that drunk- enness and ... vice so dearly as to purchase it with the loss of his trade or employment would soon grow too poor for his vice and be ...
... vice by their own . practice ; would they but dash it out of countenance by disowning it ; that drunk- enness and ... vice so dearly as to purchase it with the loss of his trade or employment would soon grow too poor for his vice and be ...
Inhalt
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
Urheberrecht | |
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