Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... occasion , he had for a considerable time before his departure from this life , and while totally unconscious of the arrow that flieth in darkness , consented to occupy . But that Almighty Providence , to whose decrees all things in ...
... occasion , he had for a considerable time before his departure from this life , and while totally unconscious of the arrow that flieth in darkness , consented to occupy . But that Almighty Providence , to whose decrees all things in ...
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... occasion to complain tenants were continued or dismissed of too burthensome an employment ; at her discretion . for my mother very judiciously con- She therefore thought herself en - sidered , that I was not likely to titled to the ...
... occasion to complain tenants were continued or dismissed of too burthensome an employment ; at her discretion . for my mother very judiciously con- She therefore thought herself en - sidered , that I was not likely to titled to the ...
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... occasion ; for , as it is impossible he receptacle , or rather the habitation should overlook any of his creatures ; of the Almighty : but the noblest and so we may be confident that he re- most exalted way of considering this gards ...
... occasion ; for , as it is impossible he receptacle , or rather the habitation should overlook any of his creatures ; of the Almighty : but the noblest and so we may be confident that he re- most exalted way of considering this gards ...
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... occasion strange revolutions in the young boys , in whose looks were le- manner of reckoning the ages of gible the sprightly passions of that men . We should see some few ar- age , which raised in me a sort of rived to a good old age in ...
... occasion strange revolutions in the young boys , in whose looks were le- manner of reckoning the ages of gible the sprightly passions of that men . We should see some few ar- age , which raised in me a sort of rived to a good old age in ...
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... occasion to converse confidence in those we have to deal more with mankind , never more with , saves the labour of many in- need their good opinion or good quiries , and brings things to an issue word , it were then no great matter in ...
... occasion to converse confidence in those we have to deal more with mankind , never more with , saves the labour of many in- need their good opinion or good quiries , and brings things to an issue word , it were then no great matter in ...
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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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