Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Observation of Order Ibid . 16 Ibid . 17 49 Order essential to Self - enjoyment and Felicity Idler . 20 · - Rambler . 21 50 Experience to be anticipated by Reflec- 12 Importance of Time , and the proper Me- thods of spending it 13 A ...
... Observation of Order Ibid . 16 Ibid . 17 49 Order essential to Self - enjoyment and Felicity Idler . 20 · - Rambler . 21 50 Experience to be anticipated by Reflec- 12 Importance of Time , and the proper Me- thods of spending it 13 A ...
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... observe every deviation name I had heard mentioned with from the reigning mode . I was uni- respect , received me with a kind of versally skilful in all the changes of tenderness nearly bordering on com- expensive finery ; but as every ...
... observe every deviation name I had heard mentioned with from the reigning mode . I was uni- respect , received me with a kind of versally skilful in all the changes of tenderness nearly bordering on com- expensive finery ; but as every ...
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... observe in ourselves , is an imperfec- mately present to it , as that being is tion that cleaves in some degree to to itself . It would be an imperfec- creatures of the highest capacities , tion in him , were he able to move as they are ...
... observe in ourselves , is an imperfec- mately present to it , as that being is tion that cleaves in some degree to to itself . It would be an imperfec- creatures of the highest capacities , tion in him , were he able to move as they are ...
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... observation may be things necessary and certain often transferred to the time allotted us in surprise us like unexpected contin- our present state . When we have gencies . We leave the beauty in deducted all that is absorbed in sleep ...
... observation may be things necessary and certain often transferred to the time allotted us in surprise us like unexpected contin- our present state . When we have gencies . We leave the beauty in deducted all that is absorbed in sleep ...
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... observing , that if matter had appear- power and dissipate the animal spirits ed to us endowed only with those which ... observe how Pro- which our countrymen are observed vidence has taken care to keep up to be more deficient than any ...
... observing , that if matter had appear- power and dissipate the animal spirits ed to us endowed only with those which ... observe how Pro- which our countrymen are observed vidence has taken care to keep up to be more deficient than any ...
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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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