Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1Harrison and Company, 1785 |
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Popular passages
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Page 230 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.