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... nature , it was impossible that , in a series of English classics , they should not constitute a link . Few authors have written in a more pleasing or more impressive style . It is by playing round the head that he reaches the heart ...
... nature , it was impossible that , in a series of English classics , they should not constitute a link . Few authors have written in a more pleasing or more impressive style . It is by playing round the head that he reaches the heart ...
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... natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his species ; but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of beco- ming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied ...
... natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his species ; but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of beco- ming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied ...
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... nature , come within my province as censor ; and I am determined not to be negligent of the trust I have reposed in myself , but resolve to execute my office diligently and faithfully . And that all the world may judge with how much ...
... nature , come within my province as censor ; and I am determined not to be negligent of the trust I have reposed in myself , but resolve to execute my office diligently and faithfully . And that all the world may judge with how much ...
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... natural faculty of second sight . This faculty ( how derived to him our family memoirs are not very clear ) was enjoyed by all his descendants , but not by equal talents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably ...
... natural faculty of second sight . This faculty ( how derived to him our family memoirs are not very clear ) was enjoyed by all his descendants , but not by equal talents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably ...
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... nature , second - sightedness , I do con- tinually see numbers of men , women , and children , of all ranks , and what they are doing , while 1 am sitting in my closet ; which is too great a burthen for the mind , and makes me also ...
... nature , second - sightedness , I do con- tinually see numbers of men , women , and children , of all ranks , and what they are doing , while 1 am sitting in my closet ; which is too great a burthen for the mind , and makes me also ...
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