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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... person ; and I am reason to call exchange robbery , sure my lord duke is a most misera- though the common saying is to the ble man , who has found one person contrary . For my part , who never who has taken away that passion for saw one ...
... person ; and I am reason to call exchange robbery , sure my lord duke is a most misera- though the common saying is to the ble man , who has found one person contrary . For my part , who never who has taken away that passion for saw one ...
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... person from whom we have most easily comforted of any in the received this bounty . But when I world ! speak of him , or hear him spoken We are as happy in lady Austen , of by others , which sometimes hap- and she in us , as ever ...
... person from whom we have most easily comforted of any in the received this bounty . But when I world ! speak of him , or hear him spoken We are as happy in lady Austen , of by others , which sometimes hap- and she in us , as ever ...
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... person's death very su- tated , both are , in my opinion , into - perfluous , and inconsistent with lerable . sense ; for what is the cause of our Johnson's new " Lives " are pub- sorrow ? Is it because we hate the lished . He is , as ...
... person's death very su- tated , both are , in my opinion , into - perfluous , and inconsistent with lerable . sense ; for what is the cause of our Johnson's new " Lives " are pub- sorrow ? Is it because we hate the lished . He is , as ...
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