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 253
... passed by sir James Dash- my countenance , and still more when wood's , * a vast new house , situated I saw the baronet finish a very large so high that it seems to stand for the jug indeed . To be sure , he wonder- county , as well as ...
... passed by sir James Dash- my countenance , and still more when wood's , * a vast new house , situated I saw the baronet finish a very large so high that it seems to stand for the jug indeed . To be sure , he wonder- county , as well as ...
Page 325
... passed me : this , I am told , is very com- many a night in a cow - house , and I mon with men in the habit of find the people inoffensive and kind . peregrination , and , indeed , I feel it I have also passed some time with So. On the ...
... passed me : this , I am told , is very com- many a night in a cow - house , and I mon with men in the habit of find the people inoffensive and kind . peregrination , and , indeed , I feel it I have also passed some time with So. On the ...
Page 365
... passed without did not want this mite to fill up the my seeing more or less of Dr. Frank- measure of his worth . lin ; and the last day that he passed His death was an affliction , which in England , having given out that he was to ...
... passed without did not want this mite to fill up the my seeing more or less of Dr. Frank- measure of his worth . lin ; and the last day that he passed His death was an affliction , which in England , having given out that he was to ...
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