An Examination of the Merits and Tendency of The Pursuits of Literature, Zväzky 1–2The Author, 1799 - 143 strán (strany) |
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Strana 24 - Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Strana 76 - ... with equal advantage. Even his compliments, though rather lofty, to Louis the fourteenth are all conceived in the language of a gentleman and a man of genius, who feels that he is conferring honour, not receiving it.
Strana 115 - They were read aloud at Warley Common and at Barham Downs, by the adjutants, at the head of five different regiments, at each camp, and much was expected. But before they were half finished, all the front ranks, and as many of the others as were within hearing or verse-shot, dropped their arms suddenly, and were all found fast asleep...
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