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The Universal Letter-writer; Or, New Art of Polite Correspondence ... - Page 142
by Rev. Thomas Cook (A.B.) - 1812 - 204 pages
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs their...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs their...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pals their...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft. imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 3

1801 - 344 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but \vhofe manners ^ they fnuft imitate, and •vrithwhofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs their...
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Select British Classics, Volume 7

English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...comply, if they desire to pass their time happily umong them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with whicli they condescend to learn what is not...
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and, equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs their...
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The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays ...

Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and fcorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and equally contemptible, but whofe manners they muft imitate, and with whofe opinions they muft comply, if they defire to pafs their...
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