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... human heart ; and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging or a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature , is scarce to be found in our own , or , per- haps , any other language 1 ...
... human heart ; and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging or a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature , is scarce to be found in our own , or , per- haps , any other language 1 ...
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... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of ' vanity and vexation of spirit " . To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain 1 See post , June 2 , 1781. Finding it then accidentally in a ...
... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of ' vanity and vexation of spirit " . To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain 1 See post , June 2 , 1781. Finding it then accidentally in a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY CHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKER | 1 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON SEPT 18 1709 | 17 |
INDEX 657704 | 657 |
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