Prose and Verse, Volume 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - English literature |
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... person I beheld was the vete- ran Higginbottom , so unfairly , but facetiously , put to death by the authors of the Rejected Addresses ; for no man is more alive to his duty . But he was sadly hampered . First came one Hon . Gent . said ...
... person I beheld was the vete- ran Higginbottom , so unfairly , but facetiously , put to death by the authors of the Rejected Addresses ; for no man is more alive to his duty . But he was sadly hampered . First came one Hon . Gent . said ...
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... persons who were running in the direction of West- minster Bridge . Owning myself a warm enthusiast on the sub- ject of ignition , and indeed not having missed a fire for the last fifty years , except one , and that was only a chimney ...
... persons who were running in the direction of West- minster Bridge . Owning myself a warm enthusiast on the sub- ject of ignition , and indeed not having missed a fire for the last fifty years , except one , and that was only a chimney ...
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... person who left the South Turret , a fact we beg leave to question , for the exquisite reason that the noble Lord alluded to is at present at Constantinople . - The Real Sun. We are enabled to state that the individual who displayed so ...
... person who left the South Turret , a fact we beg leave to question , for the exquisite reason that the noble Lord alluded to is at present at Constantinople . - The Real Sun. We are enabled to state that the individual who displayed so ...
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... person always gives a good rowt : —and I had a card in Coarse . I went very ginteel , my Cloke cost I wont say Wot , and a hat and fethers to match . But it warnt to be . After takin off my things , I had barely set down , wen at the ...
... person always gives a good rowt : —and I had a card in Coarse . I went very ginteel , my Cloke cost I wont say Wot , and a hat and fethers to match . But it warnt to be . After takin off my things , I had barely set down , wen at the ...
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... persons gains their ends . In case of yure pettycots catchin don't forgit standin on yure head , as re- commended by the Human Society , becoz fire burns uppards , but its a posishun as requiers practis . Have yure chimbly . swept ...
... persons gains their ends . In case of yure pettycots catchin don't forgit standin on yure head , as re- commended by the Human Society , becoz fire burns uppards , but its a posishun as requiers practis . Have yure chimbly . swept ...
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