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 49
... least tendency to such a transform- many years past . What is there ation . You may recollect that I had wanting to make me happy ? No- but very uncomfortable expectations thing , if I can but be as thankful as of the accommodations ...
... least tendency to such a transform- many years past . What is there ation . You may recollect that I had wanting to make me happy ? No- but very uncomfortable expectations thing , if I can but be as thankful as of the accommodations ...
Page 68
... least some of them , the bet- some great persons have spoken with ter for your residence among them . great approbation of a certain book . Olney is a populous place , inhabited Who they are , and what they have chiefly by the half ...
... least some of them , the bet- some great persons have spoken with ter for your residence among them . great approbation of a certain book . Olney is a populous place , inhabited Who they are , and what they have chiefly by the half ...
Page 278
... least not the men . ever . LETTER XXVI . Happily for them , poor souls ! they are not capable of going so far into thinking . They assent to a great deal , because it is the fashion , and because they don't know how to con- The Hon ...
... least not the men . ever . LETTER XXVI . Happily for them , poor souls ! they are not capable of going so far into thinking . They assent to a great deal , because it is the fashion , and because they don't know how to con- The Hon ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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