Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 4S. Walker, 1826 - English literature |
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... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.— happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.— happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
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... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.— happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
... Reason . We may owe to Mrs. Boswell's entreaties ; or take Fancy for a companion , but how much you ought to study the must follow Reason as our guide.— happiness of her , who studies yours We may allow Fancy to suggest cer- with so ...
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... reason why I should have reason to fear that your only write ; but I have nothing to say . joy upon the occasion will be , that it This seems equally a good reason is conveyed to you in a frank . why I should not ; yet if you had LETTER ...
... reason why I should have reason to fear that your only write ; but I have nothing to say . joy upon the occasion will be , that it This seems equally a good reason is conveyed to you in a frank . why I should not ; yet if you had LETTER ...
Contents
To the Rev William Unwin | 40 |
To the Rev William Unwin | 42 |
To Lady Hesketh | 46 |
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