The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1834 |
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... sort , has been treated in the like manner . The author has little further to say , by way of adver- tisement to these volumes , except that both the works were written with the same view of inculcating a love of nature and imagination ...
... sort , has been treated in the like manner . The author has little further to say , by way of adver- tisement to these volumes , except that both the works were written with the same view of inculcating a love of nature and imagination ...
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... sort of super- stition in turn , and blinded him to the claims of every species of enthusiasm , civil as well as religious . Mil- ton , with his poetical eyesight , saw better , when he meditated the history of his native country . We ...
... sort of super- stition in turn , and blinded him to the claims of every species of enthusiasm , civil as well as religious . Mil- ton , with his poetical eyesight , saw better , when he meditated the history of his native country . We ...
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... sort of human fish . Air is but a rarer fluid ; and at present , in this November wea- ther , a supernatural being who should look down upon us from a higher atmosphere , would have some reason to regard us as a kind of pedes- trian ...
... sort of human fish . Air is but a rarer fluid ; and at present , in this November wea- ther , a supernatural being who should look down upon us from a higher atmosphere , would have some reason to regard us as a kind of pedes- trian ...
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... sort ; it being an understood thing , that he had a privilege of exaggera- tion , without committing his abstract love of truth . The reader knows the old blunder attributed to Gold- smith about a dish of green peas . Somebody had been ...
... sort ; it being an understood thing , that he had a privilege of exaggera- tion , without committing his abstract love of truth . The reader knows the old blunder attributed to Gold- smith about a dish of green peas . Somebody had been ...
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... sort of additional dressing : " At sight of the dishes of vegetables , Goldsmith , who was at his own house , took off the covers , one after another , with great anxiety , till he found that pease were among them ; upon which he rubbed ...
... sort of additional dressing : " At sight of the dishes of vegetables , Goldsmith , who was at his own house , took off the covers , one after another , with great anxiety , till he found that pease were among them ; upon which he rubbed ...
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