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 45
... mind who was told that you were pleased to would not be proud to own his obliga- honour me with your patronage , I tions ? But it has pleased God to re- did not expect to hear of a refusal ; store me to so great a measure of health ...
... mind who was told that you were pleased to would not be proud to own his obliga- honour me with your patronage , I tions ? But it has pleased God to re- did not expect to hear of a refusal ; store me to so great a measure of health ...
Page 120
... mind of that superintending good- country ; but when there , they acquire ness , to which we are indebted for a permanent establishment . At Paris , every breath we draw , and of which , the minister , or the favourite of the in the ...
... mind of that superintending good- country ; but when there , they acquire ness , to which we are indebted for a permanent establishment . At Paris , every breath we draw , and of which , the minister , or the favourite of the in the ...
Page 124
... mind an with a satisfaction not unlike that , effect something like that of the cold which , in my younger years , I have bath upon the body ; it gives a tem- found in walking alone in a church - porary shock , but is followed by a yard ...
... mind an with a satisfaction not unlike that , effect something like that of the cold which , in my younger years , I have bath upon the body ; it gives a tem- found in walking alone in a church - porary shock , but is followed by a yard ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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