Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... person and the countess first saw me , she had a friendship . young lady with her , about eighteen They both of them often asked years of age , who was much taller me if I were in reality a German ? and better shaped than the Polish ...
... person and the countess first saw me , she had a friendship . young lady with her , about eighteen They both of them often asked years of age , who was much taller me if I were in reality a German ? and better shaped than the Polish ...
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... persons , if I inconsistent with itself , in a point point out to them certain methods that bears some affinity to the ... person who be glad to strike out of his existence can busy himself in them with dis- all the moments that are to ...
... persons , if I inconsistent with itself , in a point point out to them certain methods that bears some affinity to the ... person who be glad to strike out of his existence can busy himself in them with dis- all the moments that are to ...
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... person , one would endea- shall we think of him if he suffers vour after a more general conversa- nineteen parts of ... persons of the best sense passing ful to those who are possessed of away a dozen hours together in shuf- them ...
... person , one would endea- shall we think of him if he suffers vour after a more general conversa- nineteen parts of ... persons of the best sense passing ful to those who are possessed of away a dozen hours together in shuf- them ...
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... person of fortune , require nor expect from you great his stewards will acquire immense application to books , after you are estates , and he himself perhaps will once thrown out into the great world . die in the Fleet . I know it is ...
... person of fortune , require nor expect from you great his stewards will acquire immense application to books , after you are estates , and he himself perhaps will once thrown out into the great world . die in the Fleet . I know it is ...
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... persons whom he converses with , into any depths of sorrow . Mirth is it naturally produces love and good- like a ... Person who was the great When I consider this cheerful pattern of perfection , was never seen state of mind in its ...
... persons whom he converses with , into any depths of sorrow . Mirth is it naturally produces love and good- like a ... Person who was the great When I consider this cheerful pattern of perfection , was never seen state of mind in its ...
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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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