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... mind , such as I never ex- perienced any where else " ; and he appears to have been quite ignorant of those of its characteristics which led Richardson to describe it , in Sir Charles Grandison , as a marriage market , and Goldsmith ...
... mind , such as I never ex- perienced any where else " ; and he appears to have been quite ignorant of those of its characteristics which led Richardson to describe it , in Sir Charles Grandison , as a marriage market , and Goldsmith ...
Page xvi
... mind , or pretended not to mind , what they ate . When cookery pleased him he praised it , and praised it heartily . But this did not prevent him from dilating upon abstemiousness , and levelling his tirads against " gulosity , " to an ...
... mind , or pretended not to mind , what they ate . When cookery pleased him he praised it , and praised it heartily . But this did not prevent him from dilating upon abstemiousness , and levelling his tirads against " gulosity , " to an ...
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... mind beyond what he had ever before experienced . " In subsequent years these social meetings were often renewed , and Goldsmith , who , at the first encounter , had only been the theme of conversation , figured frequently as a guest ...
... mind beyond what he had ever before experienced . " In subsequent years these social meetings were often renewed , and Goldsmith , who , at the first encounter , had only been the theme of conversation , figured frequently as a guest ...
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... mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , JULIUS CAESAR ...
... mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , JULIUS CAESAR ...
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... mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered , there was in him a mixture of that disease , the nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a ...
... mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered , there was in him a mixture of that disease , the nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a ...
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