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Conunon subjects afford only commonplace, and are soon exhausted: why, then, should conver-sation be confined to such narrow limits, and be liable to continual repetition; when, if people would start less beaten subjects, many doubts and difficulties concerning them might be cleared up, and tliey would accpiire
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When they are not in tiie general company, tliey are al-v, - ays together, walking, riding out; or in the aparN ment of each other, reading, conversing.
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Is it, that they will not speak out, lest, if their wishes should not be crowned with success by one man, tliey should deprive themselves of a chance to succeed with another?
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Sir Charles sung to the wretches: tliey all sung, they encored him without mercv.
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Tiiey said, tliey would stay as long iis their convenience would permit; and the longer, that he might be the easier on sucli a generous call to town.
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But as tliey got nearer, Sydney gave an astonished whoop.
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We consider riches as protectoi's from care: but in general tliey are the direct contrary.
Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Pastor of the French ... Jacques Saurin , Robert Robinson , Henry Hunter, Joseph Sutcliffe 1813
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Had you - witnessed the scenes which your ministers sometimes wit - ness, you would besensible of the utter va - nity of such a supposition: had you been called, as tliey have been, to the chambers
Practical and familiar sermons Edward Cooper 1813
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It appears the Society of Antiquaries were pleased with this ac - count, and desired a copy of it; that, when it was laid before the Koyal Society in 1738, tliey sent their Transactions, and desii-ed copies of the Minutes every three or six months, as formerly from the Dublin Society j and Mr. Johnson understood that Dr,
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812
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At least tliey Wust appear to every one that reads tlie Queries, and the Wort
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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