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... merit , is fame ; but a polite age , of all times , is that in which scarcely any share of merit can ac- quire it . What numbers of fine writers in the latter empire of Rome , when refinement was carried to the highest pitch , have ...
... merit , is fame ; but a polite age , of all times , is that in which scarcely any share of merit can ac- quire it . What numbers of fine writers in the latter empire of Rome , when refinement was carried to the highest pitch , have ...
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... merit that lifts up the heart , like opium , into a rapture of insensibility , and can dismiss the mind from all the fatigue of thinking : this is the eloquence that shines in many a long - forgotten scene , which has been reckoned ...
... merit that lifts up the heart , like opium , into a rapture of insensibility , and can dismiss the mind from all the fatigue of thinking : this is the eloquence that shines in many a long - forgotten scene , which has been reckoned ...
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... merit could not procure him a bare subsistence . Being by degrees driven into an hatred of all mankind from the little pity he found amongst them , he even ventured at last ungratefully to impute his calamities to Providence . In his ...
... merit could not procure him a bare subsistence . Being by degrees driven into an hatred of all mankind from the little pity he found amongst them , he even ventured at last ungratefully to impute his calamities to Providence . In his ...
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... merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing to incur his ...
... merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing to incur his ...
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... merit , can never want a patron among the nobility . We have a description of this entertainment almost every day in some of the gazettes , as for instance : " On such a day the Give and Take Plate was run " for between his Grace's Crab ...
... merit , can never want a patron among the nobility . We have a description of this entertainment almost every day in some of the gazettes , as for instance : " On such a day the Give and Take Plate was run " for between his Grace's Crab ...
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