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Open rapine becomes less frequent , and violence gives way to cunning . Those who before invaded pastures and stormed houses , now begin to enrich themselves by unequal contracts and fraudulent intromissions .
Open rapine becomes less frequent , and violence gives way to cunning . Those who before invaded pastures and stormed houses , now begin to enrich themselves by unequal contracts and fraudulent intromissions .
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Virgil is less talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired .. We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press ...
Virgil is less talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired .. We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press ...
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Perhaps , Sir , I should be the less happy for being in Parliament . I never would sell my vote , and I should be vexed if things went wrong . " JOHNSON . " That's cant , Sir . It would not vex you more in the house than in the gallery ...
Perhaps , Sir , I should be the less happy for being in Parliament . I never would sell my vote , and I should be vexed if things went wrong . " JOHNSON . " That's cant , Sir . It would not vex you more in the house than in the gallery ...
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