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 83
... less venerable to ascertain the doubtful intelligence I figure perhaps , but not at all less ani- have received on the subject of cork mated than he nor are we in this skirts and bosoms . I am now every nook altogether unfurnished with ...
... less venerable to ascertain the doubtful intelligence I figure perhaps , but not at all less ani- have received on the subject of cork mated than he nor are we in this skirts and bosoms . I am now every nook altogether unfurnished with ...
Page 108
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc- which at one glance sees all the in - cess of the sceptical ...
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc- which at one glance sees all the in - cess of the sceptical ...
Page 291
... less every day . — I mean , that under him sharpsighted . It is very natural ; we attained not only our highest ele- mine were spirits rather than parts ; vation , but the most solid authority and as time has abated the one , it in ...
... less every day . — I mean , that under him sharpsighted . It is very natural ; we attained not only our highest ele- mine were spirits rather than parts ; vation , but the most solid authority and as time has abated the one , it in ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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