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... Sometimes my master repeats with much seeming triumph the following lines , which occasion a loud laugh : — " Timotheus , placed on high Amid the tuneful quire , With flying fingers touch'd the lyre . " For my part , I see no wit in the ...
... Sometimes my master repeats with much seeming triumph the following lines , which occasion a loud laugh : — " Timotheus , placed on high Amid the tuneful quire , With flying fingers touch'd the lyre . " For my part , I see no wit in the ...
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... sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of physic , chemistry , anatomy , and botany , will greatly avail you . The sameness of ...
... sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of physic , chemistry , anatomy , and botany , will greatly avail you . The sameness of ...
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... sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste , it lies * To surbed stone is to set it edgewise , contrary to the posture it had in the quarry , says Dr. Plot . - Oxfordsh . p . 77. But surbedding does not succeed iz our dry ...
... sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste , it lies * To surbed stone is to set it edgewise , contrary to the posture it had in the quarry , says Dr. Plot . - Oxfordsh . p . 77. But surbedding does not succeed iz our dry ...
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... sometimes to ask us pleasantly , " Whether we fastened our walls together with tenpenny nails ? " LETTER V. TO THE SAME . AMONG the singularities of this place , the two rocky hollow lanes , the one to Alton , and the other to the ...
... sometimes to ask us pleasantly , " Whether we fastened our walls together with tenpenny nails ? " LETTER V. TO THE SAME . AMONG the singularities of this place , the two rocky hollow lanes , the one to Alton , and the other to the ...
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... sometimes thirty brace in a day.t But there was a nobler species of game in this forest , now extinct , which I have heard old people say abounded much before shooting flying became so common , and that was the heath - cock , or black ...
... sometimes thirty brace in a day.t But there was a nobler species of game in this forest , now extinct , which I have heard old people say abounded much before shooting flying became so common , and that was the heath - cock , or black ...
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