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 46
... never ers , and I have nothing to do but saw his fellow . what is most agreeable to myself . The river Ouse ( I forget how they Our mentioning Newton's Trea- spell it ) is the most agreeable cir- tise on the Prophecies , brings to my ...
... never ers , and I have nothing to do but saw his fellow . what is most agreeable to myself . The river Ouse ( I forget how they Our mentioning Newton's Trea- spell it ) is the most agreeable cir- tise on the Prophecies , brings to my ...
Page 179
... never be more angry ing of the urgency for a declaration , with my valuable correspondent than which pride and triumph make a I appeared to be in my last letter ; man think unnecessary ; and per- though you love to make me angry , haps ...
... never be more angry ing of the urgency for a declaration , with my valuable correspondent than which pride and triumph make a I appeared to be in my last letter ; man think unnecessary ; and per- though you love to make me angry , haps ...
Page 307
... never found any Do you speak as you think ? art , however trivial , that did not re- You had better write again to Mr. quire some application at first . For , Between friends , the com- if an artist , instead of endeavouring mon forms ...
... never found any Do you speak as you think ? art , however trivial , that did not re- You had better write again to Mr. quire some application at first . For , Between friends , the com- if an artist , instead of endeavouring mon forms ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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