Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... become fathers , they will look upon standard of perfection , but of happi- with the utmost sorrow and contri- ness ! Spectator . tion , that they did not regard , before those whom they offended were to be $ 8. The Duty of Children to ...
... become fathers , they will look upon standard of perfection , but of happi- with the utmost sorrow and contri- ness ! Spectator . tion , that they did not regard , before those whom they offended were to be $ 8. The Duty of Children to ...
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... become it as well as lap - dog , which is their mother's fa- his predecessor . Add to this , that vourite , because it pleases the chil- the father knows he leaves a friend dren ; and she , with a delight in her to the children of his ...
... become it as well as lap - dog , which is their mother's fa- his predecessor . Add to this , that vourite , because it pleases the chil- the father knows he leaves a friend dren ; and she , with a delight in her to the children of his ...
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... become heroes . How this proficiency was familiar , and his curiosity calls upon obtained , he sufficiently discovers , him for fresh gratifications . Whether by informing us , that the Praise of the time of intermission is spent in ...
... become heroes . How this proficiency was familiar , and his curiosity calls upon obtained , he sufficiently discovers , him for fresh gratifications . Whether by informing us , that the Praise of the time of intermission is spent in ...
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... become more and Being at Sadler's Wells a few nights more a slave to folly ; and he that ago , I could not but admire the sur- does nothing , because he has nothing prising feats of activity there exhibit- to do , will become vicious ...
... become more and Being at Sadler's Wells a few nights more a slave to folly ; and he that ago , I could not but admire the sur- does nothing , because he has nothing prising feats of activity there exhibit- to do , will become vicious ...
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... become wise to beneficence , who act from no above that which is revealed , thy higher motive than immediate inter- folly has perverted the instruction est : thou canst not produce the prin- which was vouchsafed thee . Art ciple , but ...
... become wise to beneficence , who act from no above that which is revealed , thy higher motive than immediate inter- folly has perverted the instruction est : thou canst not produce the prin- which was vouchsafed thee . Art ciple , but ...
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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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