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... desire , to rectify any important opinion , or fortify any generous resolution , you need not doubt but I shall at least wish to prefer the pleasure of gratifying a friend much less esteemed than yourself , before the gloomy calm of ...
... desire , to rectify any important opinion , or fortify any generous resolution , you need not doubt but I shall at least wish to prefer the pleasure of gratifying a friend much less esteemed than yourself , before the gloomy calm of ...
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... desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , perhaps , rather over- heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well esteemed . To those who have nothing in their thoughts but trade or ...
... desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , perhaps , rather over- heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well esteemed . To those who have nothing in their thoughts but trade or ...
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Including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. they once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he would ...
Including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. they once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he would ...
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Death of Johnsons FatherIntercourse with Society in Lichfield Gilbert Walmesley | 30 |
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