The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... favoured race like them- selves . What gave rise to those laws might have been some such accidents as these . It sometimes happened , that a miser who had spent all his youth in scraping up money to give his daughter such a fortune as ...
... favoured race like them- selves . What gave rise to those laws might have been some such accidents as these . It sometimes happened , that a miser who had spent all his youth in scraping up money to give his daughter such a fortune as ...
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... death , happens to be equitably executed , it can at best only guard our possessions ; but when by favour or ignorance , justice pronounces a wrong ver- dict , it then attacks our lives , since in. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 43.
... death , happens to be equitably executed , it can at best only guard our possessions ; but when by favour or ignorance , justice pronounces a wrong ver- dict , it then attacks our lives , since in. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 43.
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... favour ; but to make amends , it is never mistaken long . A performance indeed may be forced for a time into reputation , but destitute of real merit it soon sinks ; time , the touchstone of what is truly valuable , will soon discover ...
... favour ; but to make amends , it is never mistaken long . A performance indeed may be forced for a time into reputation , but destitute of real merit it soon sinks ; time , the touchstone of what is truly valuable , will soon discover ...
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... favour of " Crab in the beginning , but Slamerkin , after the " first heat , seemed to have the match hollow ; how- " ever , it was soon seen that Periwinkle improved " in wind , which at last turned out accordingly ; " Crab was run to ...
... favour of " Crab in the beginning , but Slamerkin , after the " first heat , seemed to have the match hollow ; how- " ever , it was soon seen that Periwinkle improved " in wind , which at last turned out accordingly ; " Crab was run to ...
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... favours from Kings or their flatterers ; as I had no acquaintance in particular with their late mon- arch ; as I knew that the place of a king is soon sup- plied ; and as the Chinese proverb has it , that though the world may sometimes ...
... favours from Kings or their flatterers ; as I had no acquaintance in particular with their late mon- arch ; as I knew that the place of a king is soon sup- plied ; and as the Chinese proverb has it , that though the world may sometimes ...
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