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... thing which humanity could endure in the shape of pain and suffering , possessed of few materials , unused to lite- rary efforts , and often writing with his portfolio on his knees , whilst confined a helpless invalid to his bed , he ...
... thing which humanity could endure in the shape of pain and suffering , possessed of few materials , unused to lite- rary efforts , and often writing with his portfolio on his knees , whilst confined a helpless invalid to his bed , he ...
Page 39
... thing to renovate the decaying youth and revive the droop- ing virtues of a falling state , or to vanquish the injuries of time and fate . They were idle and barren monuments of parade , oppres- sive to the generations by whom they were ...
... thing to renovate the decaying youth and revive the droop- ing virtues of a falling state , or to vanquish the injuries of time and fate . They were idle and barren monuments of parade , oppres- sive to the generations by whom they were ...
Page 42
... thing of that province . The author is fawningly par- tial to the then administration of government there . He praises its great blemishes . He finds a beauty in their at- tack upon St. Augustino ; an expedition improvidently pro ...
... thing of that province . The author is fawningly par- tial to the then administration of government there . He praises its great blemishes . He finds a beauty in their at- tack upon St. Augustino ; an expedition improvidently pro ...
Page 47
... thing out : of the common of nature and make it my separate property by using it , my not using it any longer is the most natural waiver and abdication of that property , and justly throws that thing into the common again , to be ...
... thing out : of the common of nature and make it my separate property by using it , my not using it any longer is the most natural waiver and abdication of that property , and justly throws that thing into the common again , to be ...
Page 50
... thing in wonderful quantities with very little culture . Farther up the country the land is more mixed with a ... things will undoubtedly thrive in this country that are to be found in the happiest places under the same latitude . Their ...
... thing in wonderful quantities with very little culture . Farther up the country the land is more mixed with a ... things will undoubtedly thrive in this country that are to be found in the happiest places under the same latitude . Their ...
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