Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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... Letter . From the Letters of HORACE WALPOLE , Earl of Orford , H. K. WHITE , and LORD BYRON . Pago . ELEGANT EPISTLES . BOOK THE FIFTH . RECENT LETTERS . Letter . 129 Charles James Fox to Mr. Wakefield 130 From the same to the same 131 ...
... Letter . From the Letters of HORACE WALPOLE , Earl of Orford , H. K. WHITE , and LORD BYRON . Pago . ELEGANT EPISTLES . BOOK THE FIFTH . RECENT LETTERS . Letter . 129 Charles James Fox to Mr. Wakefield 130 From the same to the same 131 ...
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... letter for letter , need not be observ- presented themselves , were to rest ed : but never write three without contented with mediocrity , how could receiving one in return , because in he possibly ever arrive at excellence ! that case ...
... letter for letter , need not be observ- presented themselves , were to rest ed : but never write three without contented with mediocrity , how could receiving one in return , because in he possibly ever arrive at excellence ! that case ...
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... LETTER XXVI . as they should be : and that piece Dr. Franklin to George Whatley , might be of service among them . Esq . Passy , May 19 , 1785 . Dear old friend , Since , and soon after the date of your letter , we lost , unaccountably ...
... LETTER XXVI . as they should be : and that piece Dr. Franklin to George Whatley , might be of service among them . Esq . Passy , May 19 , 1785 . Dear old friend , Since , and soon after the date of your letter , we lost , unaccountably ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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