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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... town ; but I avoid ever men- though , by the date , I ought to have tioning fortifications , being sensible had it much sooner ; but nothing that I know not how to speak of them . was ever worse regulated than the I am the more easy ...
... town ; but I avoid ever men- though , by the date , I ought to have tioning fortifications , being sensible had it much sooner ; but nothing that I know not how to speak of them . was ever worse regulated than the I am the more easy ...
Page 251
... town ? a whole Roman town , with he had made himself a raw doublet , all its edifices , remaining under that he took for red satin torn , and ground ? Don't fancy the inhabit- showing the skin through . I should ants buried it there to ...
... town ? a whole Roman town , with he had made himself a raw doublet , all its edifices , remaining under that he took for red satin torn , and ground ? Don't fancy the inhabit- showing the skin through . I should ants buried it there to ...
Page 255
... town , and small . King glass . I forgot to tell you of a sweet Charles the Second's house , is the house , which Mr. Montagu carri- worst thing I ever saw of sir Christo- ed me to see , belonging to a Mr. pher Wren , a mixture of a town ...
... town , and small . King glass . I forgot to tell you of a sweet Charles the Second's house , is the house , which Mr. Montagu carri- worst thing I ever saw of sir Christo- ed me to see , belonging to a Mr. pher Wren , a mixture of a town ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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