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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... heart and hand are too much yours to permit me to employ anoth- er's to dictate , or write to your grace , when I am able to do it . I had your letter , for which I am obliged to you : I feel all the sensibility of friendship when I ...
... heart and hand are too much yours to permit me to employ anoth- er's to dictate , or write to your grace , when I am able to do it . I had your letter , for which I am obliged to you : I feel all the sensibility of friendship when I ...
Page 168
... heart , with that whole heart I dis- mere mortal cannot , ought not , to be claim hypocrisy , the lowest of all quite perfect . It is sufficient , if its vices , ingratitude excepted . Faith- errors be not premeditated , wilful , ful ...
... heart , with that whole heart I dis- mere mortal cannot , ought not , to be claim hypocrisy , the lowest of all quite perfect . It is sufficient , if its vices , ingratitude excepted . Faith- errors be not premeditated , wilful , ful ...
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... heart is now a good deal wounded be . But if I had been asked , whom with the news of sir William Willys's of all my friends , next to that one , death . He had very good sense , would have chosen to have staid great modesty , uncommon ...
... heart is now a good deal wounded be . But if I had been asked , whom with the news of sir William Willys's of all my friends , next to that one , death . He had very good sense , would have chosen to have staid great modesty , uncommon ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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