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  • I saw that each one was likely to pass over and reject the richest blessing of earth, even in the very pursuing of it, from having merely sketched, in imagination, an unresembling portrait of the object of pursuit.

    The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

  • In every Part It has Humanity for its Intention: In too many, it seems wantoner than It was meant to be: It has bold shocking Pictures; and (I fear) [Footnote: The “pen-holder” is the fair Astraea.] not unresembling ones, in high Life, and in low.

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • It was meant to be: It has bold shocking Pictures; and (I fear) [Footnote: The "pen-holder" is the fair Astraea.] not unresembling ones, in high Life, and in low.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • Behold a draught, not unresembling the face of Christianity in this new world, when Father Xavier arrived in it.

    The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

  • I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophised a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass, therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

  • Behold a draught, not unresembling the face of Christianity in this new world, when Father Xavier arrived in it.

    The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

  • A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them both are dangerous things, either to resemble them because they are many or to hate many because they are unresembling to ourselves.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 06 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them both are dangerous things, either to resemble them because they are many or to hate many because they are unresembling to ourselves.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

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