The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 4A. and W. Galignani and Jules Didot, 1825 |
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... knew but little of him , or who , perhaps , could have given very little information if they had known more . He He Parnell , by what I have been able to collect from my father and uncle , who knew him , was the most capable man in the ...
... knew but little of him , or who , perhaps , could have given very little information if they had known more . He He Parnell , by what I have been able to collect from my father and uncle , who knew him , was the most capable man in the ...
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... knew you in best health here ) , but you have wrought several miracles upon our family ; you have made old peo- ple fond of a young and gay person , and inveterate papists of a clergyman of the Church of England ; even Nurse her- self ...
... knew you in best health here ) , but you have wrought several miracles upon our family ; you have made old peo- ple fond of a young and gay person , and inveterate papists of a clergyman of the Church of England ; even Nurse her- self ...
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... knew . The Fairy Tale is incontestably one of the finest pieces in any language . The old dialect is not perfectly well preserved , but this is a very slight defect , where all the rest is so excellent . The Pervigilium Veneris ( which ...
... knew . The Fairy Tale is incontestably one of the finest pieces in any language . The old dialect is not perfectly well preserved , but this is a very slight defect , where all the rest is so excellent . The Pervigilium Veneris ( which ...
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... knew him most in- timately , were thoroughly sensible of the extent of his mind ; and when he left the university , he was considered as one who had the fairest opportunity of making a shining figure in active life . Nature seemed not ...
... knew him most in- timately , were thoroughly sensible of the extent of his mind ; and when he left the university , he was considered as one who had the fairest opportunity of making a shining figure in active life . Nature seemed not ...
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... knew his faults , he admired his virtues , and had the boast of being instrumental in giving lustre to those triumphs by which his own power was in a manner overthrown . As the affairs of the nation were then in as fluctuating a state ...
... knew his faults , he admired his virtues , and had the boast of being instrumental in giving lustre to those triumphs by which his own power was in a manner overthrown . As the affairs of the nation were then in as fluctuating a state ...
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