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 66
... Perhaps the duke of Port- equal probability of success , hazard land , or perhaps the unpopular a conjecture directly opposite . Alas ! whom they now represent as a devil , what is the wisdom of man , espe- may obtain that honour . Thus ...
... Perhaps the duke of Port- equal probability of success , hazard land , or perhaps the unpopular a conjecture directly opposite . Alas ! whom they now represent as a devil , what is the wisdom of man , espe- may obtain that honour . Thus ...
Page 121
... perhaps , with to- mend licentious theories . I would lerable exactness , the soils , plants , not object to the truth of any fact , and other irrational curiosities of the that is warranted by the testimony new country , which procures ...
... perhaps , with to- mend licentious theories . I would lerable exactness , the soils , plants , not object to the truth of any fact , and other irrational curiosities of the that is warranted by the testimony new country , which procures ...
Page 170
... perhaps yours ! How much ought this re- would say , What is all this to me ? -flection to alleviate the pangs that but Mr. Richardson , I know , is not will accompany it on the loss you such a man . have so recently sustained ! I have ...
... perhaps yours ! How much ought this re- would say , What is all this to me ? -flection to alleviate the pangs that but Mr. Richardson , I know , is not will accompany it on the loss you such a man . have so recently sustained ! I have ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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