Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1 |
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... moral and literary rank , not only be singularly curious , as affording a novel view of the progress of polite ... morals and the manners of the age . The facility , however , with which this mode of writing might be rendered a vehicle ...
... moral and literary rank , not only be singularly curious , as affording a novel view of the progress of polite ... morals and the manners of the age . The facility , however , with which this mode of writing might be rendered a vehicle ...
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... moral improvement , and to ascertain how far the peri- odical Essayists have contributed towards their promotion , I shall dwell on those productions alone which have been written , not only in the X form , but with a portion of the ...
... moral improvement , and to ascertain how far the peri- odical Essayists have contributed towards their promotion , I shall dwell on those productions alone which have been written , not only in the X form , but with a portion of the ...
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... moral order , and occasionally display passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable ...
... moral order , and occasionally display passages of some literary merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable ...
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... morality . To mitigate the severity , however , attendant on such topics , and to superadd the charm of variety , the authors of the Freethinker have occasionally interspersed several pieces of wit , humour , and imagination ; nor are ...
... morality . To mitigate the severity , however , attendant on such topics , and to superadd the charm of variety , the authors of the Freethinker have occasionally interspersed several pieces of wit , humour , and imagination ; nor are ...
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... morals not correct ; but nothing can justify the base desertion of his employers , who ascended to power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the ...
... morals not correct ; but nothing can justify the base desertion of his employers , who ascended to power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the ...
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