Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... follow his literary pursuits with unabated ardour till within the last three days of his life . The strength of his constitution seemed to promise an extreme old age , when he was seized with an inflammation of the intestines , while on ...
... follow his literary pursuits with unabated ardour till within the last three days of his life . The strength of his constitution seemed to promise an extreme old age , when he was seized with an inflammation of the intestines , while on ...
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... follow and immediately disappeared . These hidden pit - falls were set very thick at me . He then led me to the highest pin- the entrance of the bridge , so that nacle of the rock , and placing me on throngs of people no sooner broke ...
... follow and immediately disappeared . These hidden pit - falls were set very thick at me . He then led me to the highest pin- the entrance of the bridge , so that nacle of the rock , and placing me on throngs of people no sooner broke ...
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... follow me to the grave , bend in my shoulders , and his totter than see me tear my clothes , and in my gait . hang down my head , and sneak Such , however , was her care , that about with dirty shoes and blotted I escaped all these ...
... follow me to the grave , bend in my shoulders , and his totter than see me tear my clothes , and in my gait . hang down my head , and sneak Such , however , was her care , that about with dirty shoes and blotted I escaped all these ...
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... follows in it but I cannot behold him he hideth upon the commission of vice . himself on the right hand that I can- Thirdly , from the nature of the not see him . " In short , reason as Supreme Being , whose justice , good- well as ...
... follows in it but I cannot behold him he hideth upon the commission of vice . himself on the right hand that I can- Thirdly , from the nature of the not see him . " In short , reason as Supreme Being , whose justice , good- well as ...
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... follow lus knows , being in his favour is di- nature in these great duties of life , rection enough to the grateful youth though we have a strong instinct who is to succeed him , without the towards the performing of them , we ...
... follow lus knows , being in his favour is di- nature in these great duties of life , rection enough to the grateful youth though we have a strong instinct who is to succeed him , without the towards the performing of them , we ...
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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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