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 173
... nature for what we have ! We have , clearer for having struggled through there , an advantage over your sex . and shaken off these clogs of absurd- You are in the right to keep us in ities ; yet its appearing in its native ignorance ...
... nature for what we have ! We have , clearer for having struggled through there , an advantage over your sex . and shaken off these clogs of absurd- You are in the right to keep us in ities ; yet its appearing in its native ignorance ...
Page 214
... Nature and Art . She is the verb , and prove that the British a favourite novelist with me . Her Critic , who says it is not the habit late work has improbable situations , of good writers , is a stranger to and is inferior to her ...
... Nature and Art . She is the verb , and prove that the British a favourite novelist with me . Her Critic , who says it is not the habit late work has improbable situations , of good writers , is a stranger to and is inferior to her ...
Page 360
... Nature , finding they made no use of is a subject you understand better bubbies , has left off giving them any . than I , and therefore , having per- Yet , since Rousseau , with admirable haps said too much , I drop it . I eloquence ...
... Nature , finding they made no use of is a subject you understand better bubbies , has left off giving them any . than I , and therefore , having per- Yet , since Rousseau , with admirable haps said too much , I drop it . I eloquence ...
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