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They can - not furely but fmile at the difm - tereftednefs of their fupcriors, who, while they fceiu anxibijfly concerned to fave others, are fo little folicitous about their own ftate.
Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society 1789
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In fhort, Ned has drank, wenched, fought, and beggared himfelf, through an exalted folicitude for the general emolument, and is now clofe pent up in one of our prifons, out of a pure and difm - terefted regard for the welfare of fociety.
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Quin eciamfi Lugdunenfes quinquennales fuiffead* miccerentur nihilinde certi haberetur» cum quandoque difm ferrencur iftiufmodi ludi» aut etiam anciciparencur» quo vel femel fa£lo ordo percurbacus remanebat.
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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