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... Poor Richard , abundantly luxuriant in this respect , may be adduced in proof ; and the same quality will be found sparkling here and there through the whole of these little volumes . Like his writings , a his life too was eminently ...
... Poor Richard , abundantly luxuriant in this respect , may be adduced in proof ; and the same quality will be found sparkling here and there through the whole of these little volumes . Like his writings , a his life too was eminently ...
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... poor monkey : he had an ill- natured trick of grinning and chattering at every thing he saw in petticoats . My ignorant coun- try neighbours got a notion that pug snarled by instinct at every female who had lost her vir- ginity . This ...
... poor monkey : he had an ill- natured trick of grinning and chattering at every thing he saw in petticoats . My ignorant coun- try neighbours got a notion that pug snarled by instinct at every female who had lost her vir- ginity . This ...
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... poor deluded money- hunters . There is certainly something very bewitching in the pursuit after mines of gold and silver and other valuable metals , and many have been ruined by it . A sea - captain of my acquaintance used to blame the ...
... poor deluded money- hunters . There is certainly something very bewitching in the pursuit after mines of gold and silver and other valuable metals , and many have been ruined by it . A sea - captain of my acquaintance used to blame the ...
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... poor condition as to trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor ...
... poor condition as to trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor ...
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... poor no employ . ment ; war and the sword was the great field of honour , the stage of preferment ; and you have scarce a man eminent in the world for any thing before that time , but for a furious outrageous fall- ing upon his fellow ...
... poor no employ . ment ; war and the sword was the great field of honour , the stage of preferment ; and you have scarce a man eminent in the world for any thing before that time , but for a furious outrageous fall- ing upon his fellow ...
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