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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Page 106
... heard whether my little work some . I was always fond of it ; for has been approved or condemned in I think it the most harmonious that England . I have not even heard ever was contrived . It admits of whether it has been published or ...
... heard whether my little work some . I was always fond of it ; for has been approved or condemned in I think it the most harmonious that England . I have not even heard ever was contrived . It admits of whether it has been published or ...
Page 160
... heard none of the infirmities of age . She men of real good sense , great parts , has one of the most agreeable and and many fine qualities , lower them- placid countenances I ever saw.— selves down to these little - minded They love ...
... heard none of the infirmities of age . She men of real good sense , great parts , has one of the most agreeable and and many fine qualities , lower them- placid countenances I ever saw.— selves down to these little - minded They love ...
Page 226
... heard him laughed at by fools , who had neither his sense , his knowledge , nor his honesty ; though , it , send it back . it must be confessed , that in him they were all strangely travestied . Not a week before his death , he walked ...
... heard him laughed at by fools , who had neither his sense , his knowledge , nor his honesty ; though , it , send it back . it must be confessed , that in him they were all strangely travestied . Not a week before his death , he walked ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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