The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... just and impartial , yet ag- gravates very much the guilt of the accufers ; I mean by authors without names ; then I thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be : fo ; and that it was an act of justice to ...
... just and impartial , yet ag- gravates very much the guilt of the accufers ; I mean by authors without names ; then I thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be : fo ; and that it was an act of justice to ...
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... just subject of fatire , when it is the consequence of vice , prodigality , or neglect of one's lawful calling ; for then it increases the public bur- den , fills the streets and highways with robbers , and the garrets with clippers ...
... just subject of fatire , when it is the consequence of vice , prodigality , or neglect of one's lawful calling ; for then it increases the public bur- den , fills the streets and highways with robbers , and the garrets with clippers ...
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... just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from imposition , because particular interest ought to yield to general , and a great num- ber who are not naturally fools , ought never to be made so , in ...
... just to un- deceive and vindicate the honest and unpretending part of mankind from imposition , because particular interest ought to yield to general , and a great num- ber who are not naturally fools , ought never to be made so , in ...
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... just for being delayed , so were his panegyrics ; bestowed only on fuch persons as he had familiarly known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obfer- ved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praife , if not begin to ...
... just for being delayed , so were his panegyrics ; bestowed only on fuch persons as he had familiarly known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obfer- ved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praife , if not begin to ...
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... just " so , one single person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done by " the force of several masterly hands . " Indeed the " fame gentleman appears to have changed his fenti- " ment in his ...
... just " so , one single person has performed in this tranfla- " “ tion , what I once despaired to have seen done by " the force of several masterly hands . " Indeed the " fame gentleman appears to have changed his fenti- " ment in his ...
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