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 291
... taken a thorough dislike to being an few martyrs . author ; and if it would not look like I do not know yet what is settled begging you to compliment me , by about the spot of lord Chatham's contradicting me , I would tell you ...
... taken a thorough dislike to being an few martyrs . author ; and if it would not look like I do not know yet what is settled begging you to compliment me , by about the spot of lord Chatham's contradicting me , I would tell you ...
Page 300
... taken than I expected , because I shall a little liberty when I excommuni- have much less to read than I intend- cate a tongue in which your lady- ed . His memoirs , I am told , are al- ship has condescended to write ; but most wholly ...
... taken than I expected , because I shall a little liberty when I excommuni- have much less to read than I intend- cate a tongue in which your lady- ed . His memoirs , I am told , are al- ship has condescended to write ; but most wholly ...
Page 380
... taken by our guards ) are giving ten watching for advantages . pounds bounty for recruits , and have At Cambridge , last year , where got a battalion under major Rogers the officers ( and more than a suffi- nearly completed upon Long ...
... taken by our guards ) are giving ten watching for advantages . pounds bounty for recruits , and have At Cambridge , last year , where got a battalion under major Rogers the officers ( and more than a suffi- nearly completed upon Long ...
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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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