Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of mis - spending Time · • Page . Tottie . 55 Ibid . 56 Blair . 57 Ibid . 57 Ibid . 58 43 Valuable Opportunities once lost cannot Ibid . o be recalled Spectator . 8 44 The ...
... Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of mis - spending Time · • Page . Tottie . 55 Ibid . 56 Blair . 57 Ibid . 57 Ibid . 58 43 Valuable Opportunities once lost cannot Ibid . o be recalled Spectator . 8 44 The ...
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... that without the are an old bachelor , you must not pomp of saying , Son , be a friend to laugh at my tenderness to my chil- dren . " I need not tell my reader tenderness BOOK I. ] 17 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . Strength of Parental Affection.
... that without the are an old bachelor , you must not pomp of saying , Son , be a friend to laugh at my tenderness to my chil- dren . " I need not tell my reader tenderness BOOK I. ] 17 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . Strength of Parental Affection.
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... affection dom unprovided of plums or marbles , should , methinks , create a more to make my court to such entertain- grateful tenderness in children to- ing companions . wards their parents , than we generally Whence is it , said I to ...
... affection dom unprovided of plums or marbles , should , methinks , create a more to make my court to such entertain- grateful tenderness in children to- ing companions . wards their parents , than we generally Whence is it , said I to ...
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... affection for her , than I ever when I found she knew me not , I bore to any woman in my life ; when thought fit to conceal my name . II began to perceive that her constant told her I was a German ; that I had care of me was only a ...
... affection for her , than I ever when I found she knew me not , I bore to any woman in my life ; when thought fit to conceal my name . II began to perceive that her constant told her I was a German ; that I had care of me was only a ...
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... affection , we find help itself ; nor to mention her for- protection granted , and favours be- saking the nest , if after the usual stowed , are greater motives to love time of reckoning , the young one and tenderness , than safety ...
... affection , we find help itself ; nor to mention her for- protection granted , and favours be- saking the nest , if after the usual stowed , are greater motives to love time of reckoning , the young one and tenderness , than safety ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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