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... pleased when they have an opportu- nity at once of gratifying their vanity , and practising their duty . This interval of prosperity furnished him with op- portunities of enlarging his knowledge of human nature , by contemplating life ...
... pleased when they have an opportu- nity at once of gratifying their vanity , and practising their duty . This interval of prosperity furnished him with op- portunities of enlarging his knowledge of human nature , by contemplating life ...
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Samuel Johnson. opportunity of a sly trick , and pleased himself with the thought of outwitting Bolingbroke * . In familiar or convivial conversation , it does not appear that he excelled . He may be said to have re- sembled Dryden , as ...
Samuel Johnson. opportunity of a sly trick , and pleased himself with the thought of outwitting Bolingbroke * . In familiar or convivial conversation , it does not appear that he excelled . He may be said to have re- sembled Dryden , as ...
Pagina 296
... pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the great is too often repeated to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and , as falsehood is always in danger of inconsist- ency , he makes it his ...
... pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the great is too often repeated to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and , as falsehood is always in danger of inconsist- ency , he makes it his ...
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