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Page 6
... seems to be resolved into that one motive of speaking , sincerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt gesture , and the assumed concern , are impotent helps to persuasion , in com- parisons of the honest countenance of him ...
... seems to be resolved into that one motive of speaking , sincerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt gesture , and the assumed concern , are impotent helps to persuasion , in com- parisons of the honest countenance of him ...
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... seems no bigger than his head . The fishermen that walk upon the beach , Appear like mice , and yond ' tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat ! a buoy Almost too small for sight . The murmuring surge ( That on th ...
... seems no bigger than his head . The fishermen that walk upon the beach , Appear like mice , and yond ' tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boat ! a buoy Almost too small for sight . The murmuring surge ( That on th ...
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... seems dustrious to conceal from us . Philosophy had ranged . over all the visible creation , and began to want objects for her enquiries , when the present age , by the inven- tion of glasses , opened a new and inexhaustible maga- zine ...
... seems dustrious to conceal from us . Philosophy had ranged . over all the visible creation , and began to want objects for her enquiries , when the present age , by the inven- tion of glasses , opened a new and inexhaustible maga- zine ...
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... seem to arise from instinct ; for which reason , I have always looked upon the mutual good - will between the ' squire and the hound , to be of the same nature with that between the lion and jack- all . The only extravagance of this ...
... seem to arise from instinct ; for which reason , I have always looked upon the mutual good - will between the ' squire and the hound , to be of the same nature with that between the lion and jack- all . The only extravagance of this ...
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... seem to me so great a fool as he takes himself to be . “ SIR , " COMING to town , and finding my friend Mr. " Partridge dead and buried , and you the only con- " jurer in repute , I am under a necessity of applying " myself to you for a ...
... seem to me so great a fool as he takes himself to be . “ SIR , " COMING to town , and finding my friend Mr. " Partridge dead and buried , and you the only con- " jurer in repute , I am under a necessity of applying " myself to you for a ...
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