Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 4S. Walker, 1826 |
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Page 104
... true reasoning if my health had allowed me to study ; does resolve itself : that therefore but I have been obliged to estrange what contradicts common sense is in myself from books for some months itself absurd , however subtle the ar ...
... true reasoning if my health had allowed me to study ; does resolve itself : that therefore but I have been obliged to estrange what contradicts common sense is in myself from books for some months itself absurd , however subtle the ar ...
Page 109
... true , that liv- Blacklock's new book . * I was very ing authors are often hardly dealt much surprised to see my name pre- with by their contemporaries ; wit- fixed to the dedication , as he never ness Milton , Collins the poet , and ...
... true , that liv- Blacklock's new book . * I was very ing authors are often hardly dealt much surprised to see my name pre- with by their contemporaries ; wit- fixed to the dedication , as he never ness Milton , Collins the poet , and ...
Page 347
... True , said the farmer , but you do people to give such offence to English not tell all the story : I think the cap travellers . The first part of the pro- was nevertheless an advantage to verb is thereby verified , that fools us ; for ...
... True , said the farmer , but you do people to give such offence to English not tell all the story : I think the cap travellers . The first part of the pro- was nevertheless an advantage to verb is thereby verified , that fools us ; for ...
Contents
To the Rev William Unwin | 40 |
To the Rev William Unwin | 42 |
To Lady Hesketh | 46 |
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