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 54
... occasion will be , that it This seems equally a good reason is conveyed to you in a frank . why I should not ; yet if you had LETTER XIII . To the Rev. William Unwin . My dear friend , Aug. 6 , 1780 . When I began , I expected no in ...
... occasion will be , that it This seems equally a good reason is conveyed to you in a frank . why I should not ; yet if you had LETTER XIII . To the Rev. William Unwin . My dear friend , Aug. 6 , 1780 . When I began , I expected no in ...
Page 71
... occasions , easily resisted ; and then , perhaps , that I seem to partake with the navi- though almost insensible of it before , gators in all the dangers they encoun- we feel more than the occasion will tered . I lose my anchor : my ...
... occasions , easily resisted ; and then , perhaps , that I seem to partake with the navi- though almost insensible of it before , gators in all the dangers they encoun- we feel more than the occasion will tered . I lose my anchor : my ...
Page 90
... occasion . Nor must I possible security to yourself and the forget to thank you , that so soon af- General that my work shall not come ter I had sent you the first letter of forth unfinished , I answered Johnson Anonymous , I received ...
... occasion . Nor must I possible security to yourself and the forget to thank you , that so soon af- General that my work shall not come ter I had sent you the first letter of forth unfinished , I answered Johnson Anonymous , I received ...
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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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Aberdeen acquaintance Adieu agreeable amusement Anna Seward beautiful believe Bishop of Gloucester bless Bradshaigh character charming Cicero comfort cousin dear friend dear sir delight desire Duchess of Portland Edward Gibbon Elizabeth Montagu England expect favour fear feel genius give glad grace happy haps hear heart Henry Kirke White honour hope Horace Walpole John Newton Johnson Jones kind lady ladyship Lausanne least less LETTER live London lord Lord Althorpe madam ment mind miss Montagu morning nature ness never night obliged occasion Olney perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor pray present racter reason received sensible sent Sir William Jones soon spirits suppose sure tell thank ther thing thought tion town truth verse Virgil William Unwin wish woman word write young