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... writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good ... writers , com- pared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were veracious- liars by a double right , as travellers and as ...
... writer of modern Europe . Something he doubtless owes to his merit , but much more to his fortune . He had the good ... writers , com- pared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were veracious- liars by a double right , as travellers and as ...
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... writers have reason to regret it . It is always an age of general ignorance . Where ten thousand readers are eager ... writer , accustomed to find exaggeration acceptable and necessary on one subject , uses it on all . It is not strange ...
... writers have reason to regret it . It is always an age of general ignorance . Where ten thousand readers are eager ... writer , accustomed to find exaggeration acceptable and necessary on one subject , uses it on all . It is not strange ...
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... writers . These second - hand imitations resembled the originals about as much as the classical feasts with which the Doctor in Peregrine Pickle turned the stomachs of all his guests resembled one of the suppers of Lucullus in the Hall ...
... writers . These second - hand imitations resembled the originals about as much as the classical feasts with which the Doctor in Peregrine Pickle turned the stomachs of all his guests resembled one of the suppers of Lucullus in the Hall ...
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