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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... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.- happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.- happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
Page 54
... reason why I should have reason to fear that your only write ; but I have nothing to say . joy upon the 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 ...
... reason why I should have reason to fear that your only write ; but I have nothing to say . joy upon the 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 ...
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... reason of it . But suppose this were done , to justify the resumption of it . But can they be legally deprived of their such reasons I think are not want - charter ? In truth I think so . ing . A grant of that kind , it is well the ...
... reason of it . But suppose this were done , to justify the resumption of it . But can they be legally deprived of their such reasons I think are not want - charter ? In truth I think so . ing . A grant of that kind , it is well the ...
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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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