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 160
... sense , great parts , has one of the most agreeable and and many fine qualities , lower them- placid countenances I ever saw.— selves down to these little - minded They love each other , and the hus- creatures , in inveighing with ...
... sense , great parts , has one of the most agreeable and and many fine qualities , lower them- placid countenances I ever saw.— selves down to these little - minded They love each other , and the hus- creatures , in inveighing with ...
Page 177
... sense enough to make be , in cases of duty and of delicacy , him see , that she thinks him her su- my love for the sex makes me apply perior in sense , ' as you once told to your ladyship's words- " you pro- me . Proud mortal ! and vain ...
... sense enough to make be , in cases of duty and of delicacy , him see , that she thinks him her su- my love for the sex makes me apply perior in sense , ' as you once told to your ladyship's words- " you pro- me . Proud mortal ! and vain ...
Page 342
... sense of their country ! I working people , who might have per - imagine it must be likewise contrary formed the useful labour ! to the good sense of most of those I am pleased with the late astro- drawn into it , by the persuasion of ...
... sense of their country ! I working people , who might have per - imagine it must be likewise contrary formed the useful labour ! to the good sense of most of those I am pleased with the late astro- drawn into it , by the persuasion of ...
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