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15. When the great hord of Kalmucs thought themselves oppressed by the Russian sway, they broke uph, and removed to Chinese Tartary in1 1771, where they still roam at the present day."

16. All the men of the revolution" Napoleon at last pushed into the back-ground.d

17. If it were possible for our hearts to possess all good qualities excepte humility, they would, without this virtue, have no real merit.j

18. In order to see the world", Solon travelled in foreign countries, and he came tof Egypts to Amasis, and then to Sardes to Croesus.

19. When Jouvenet was maimed by a paralytic stroke", he successfully commenced painting with his

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left hand; and there is knowns a copper-plate of one of his historical pictures1 with the signature: P. Jouvenet, dextrá paralyticus, sinistrá pinxit. P. Jouvenet, paralyzed in his right hand, painted with his left.

20. Ona these occasions a man gives loosed to every passion, and every thoughts that is uppermost", discovers i his most secret' opinions of1 persons" and things", and exposes his whole soul to the examination of his friends. 21. He was the first a man who, for a month, had talked to me with smiles.'

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24. After a few a questions he found I was fit for any thing in the world.

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