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... present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which ...
... present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which ...
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... present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second ...
... present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second ...
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... Present State of Affairs ; intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick the Third , king of Prussia ; intern . evid . In the same Magazine his reviews are of the following books : Birch's History of the Royal Society . Browne's Christian Morals ...
... Present State of Affairs ; intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick the Third , king of Prussia ; intern . evid . In the same Magazine his reviews are of the following books : Birch's History of the Royal Society . Browne's Christian Morals ...
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... present at this ceremony , and says the words used were , ' Le Roi te touche , Dieu te guérisse . " Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king ...
... present at this ceremony , and says the words used were , ' Le Roi te touche , Dieu te guérisse . " Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king ...
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... present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his ...
... present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced to Mr. Jorden , who was to be his ...
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