Essays in a Series of LettersH.G. Bohn, 1863 - 342 pages |
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... retain in a great degree this peculiar dialect .... Young ones recommended to learn to employ in religion the language in which cultivated men talk and write on general subjects .... The vast mass of writing in a comprehensive literary ...
... retain in a great degree this peculiar dialect .... Young ones recommended to learn to employ in religion the language in which cultivated men talk and write on general subjects .... The vast mass of writing in a comprehensive literary ...
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... retained in a connexion with the present by that principle of self - love , which is unwilling to relinquish its hold on what has once been his . Though he cannot but be sensible of how little consequence his life can have been in the ...
... retained in a connexion with the present by that principle of self - love , which is unwilling to relinquish its hold on what has once been his . Though he cannot but be sensible of how little consequence his life can have been in the ...
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... retain , and which continues in most cases to be still held with anxious attachment . What has been the object of so ... retained by him who has possessed it , has seen it all to this moment depart , and can never recall it . To write ...
... retain , and which continues in most cases to be still held with anxious attachment . What has been the object of so ... retained by him who has possessed it , has seen it all to this moment depart , and can never recall it . To write ...
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... imagine how it will be to recollect , at a far distant point of my era , what I was when here ; and wish if it were possible to retain , as I advance , some clear trace of the whole course of my existence within 4 ON A MAN'S WRITING.
... imagine how it will be to recollect , at a far distant point of my era , what I was when here ; and wish if it were possible to retain , as I advance , some clear trace of the whole course of my existence within 4 ON A MAN'S WRITING.
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... retain so light an impression that we have now nothing distinctly to tell about what once excited our utmost emotion . As to my own mind , I perceive that it is becoming uncertain of the exact nature of many feelings of considerable ...
... retain so light an impression that we have now nothing distinctly to tell about what once excited our utmost emotion . As to my own mind , I perceive that it is becoming uncertain of the exact nature of many feelings of considerable ...
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