Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... suffer for want of superiority , placed at the same table with his pu- sinks him to submissiveness . My pil , and had no other view than to mamma therefore governed the fa- perpetuate his felicity by the utmost mily without control ...
... suffer for want of superiority , placed at the same table with his pu- sinks him to submissiveness . My pil , and had no other view than to mamma therefore governed the fa- perpetuate his felicity by the utmost mily without control ...
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... suffered to molest us . self , have I dashed into confusion by After a few years , however , these the steadiness of my ... suffer me to pay the treat , to my notice ; and invited , by a thou- and then titter with boys . So that I sand ...
... suffered to molest us . self , have I dashed into confusion by After a few years , however , these the steadiness of my ... suffer me to pay the treat , to my notice ; and invited , by a thou- and then titter with boys . So that I sand ...
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... suffer frugal , as to let none of them slip ourselves to consider together . Of from us without some equivalent ; the same kind is the prodigality of and perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth ...
... suffer frugal , as to let none of them slip ourselves to consider together . Of from us without some equivalent ; the same kind is the prodigality of and perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth ...
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... suffer him- an estate indeed , which will produce self to be discouraged by fancied im- nothing without cultivation ... suffered to lie waste by negligence , by the contraction of its channel . to be over - run with noxious plants ...
... suffer him- an estate indeed , which will produce self to be discouraged by fancied im- nothing without cultivation ... suffered to lie waste by negligence , by the contraction of its channel . to be over - run with noxious plants ...
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... suffers himself went through as regular triple peals to take rank among the lowest charac- and bob - majors , as the boys of Christ- ters , when he might render himself church Hospital ; all which he ef- conspicuous among the highest ...
... suffers himself went through as regular triple peals to take rank among the lowest charac- and bob - majors , as the boys of Christ- ters , when he might render himself church Hospital ; all which he ef- conspicuous among the highest ...
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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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