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Page xxiii
... seems to have enunciated words deliberately and in a rather loud voice . He was not , as some have incorrectly imagined , the sort of talker who is always over - ready to get in the first word and to allow others little chance of ...
... seems to have enunciated words deliberately and in a rather loud voice . He was not , as some have incorrectly imagined , the sort of talker who is always over - ready to get in the first word and to allow others little chance of ...
Page xxiv
... seems to be of more interest today than it ever was before . Melancholy , in some of its various senses ( especially as mere boredom or some variety of mild depression ) was a fashionable eight- eenth - century complaint . Mrs. Thrale ...
... seems to be of more interest today than it ever was before . Melancholy , in some of its various senses ( especially as mere boredom or some variety of mild depression ) was a fashionable eight- eenth - century complaint . Mrs. Thrale ...
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... seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined , or more accurately and elegantly expressed . I therefore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Dictionary , and who , I ...
... seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined , or more accurately and elegantly expressed . I therefore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Dictionary , and who , I ...
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