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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... wish , indeed , I include myself , to acknowledge . who have none but you on whom my When , upon some slight encou- heart reposes : yet surely I wish ragement , I first visited your lordship your good , even though your situa- I was ...
... wish , indeed , I include myself , to acknowledge . who have none but you on whom my When , upon some slight encou- heart reposes : yet surely I wish ragement , I first visited your lordship your good , even though your situa- I was ...
Page 139
... wish to have it , because I tue , ought to stand forth , it is the wish to have twenty thousand pounds present . I am informed , that you in my pocket before I am eight - and- have attended some county meetings , thirty years old ; and ...
... wish to have it , because I tue , ought to stand forth , it is the wish to have twenty thousand pounds present . I am informed , that you in my pocket before I am eight - and- have attended some county meetings , thirty years old ; and ...
Page 359
... wish that , in a me is a little mistaken , when , speak- future state , I may not only be as ing of the world , he says , that He ne'er cared a pin What they said , or may say , of the mortal within . well as I was , but a little better ...
... wish that , in a me is a little mistaken , when , speak- future state , I may not only be as ing of the world , he says , that He ne'er cared a pin What they said , or may say , of the mortal within . well as I was , but a little better ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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