The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... common to all mankind , which can seldom be excited but in a good cause . No man becomes eloquent but by having his mind roused and agitated by some ennobling sentiment or passion , which he communicates by sympathy to his hearers : but ...
... common to all mankind , which can seldom be excited but in a good cause . No man becomes eloquent but by having his mind roused and agitated by some ennobling sentiment or passion , which he communicates by sympathy to his hearers : but ...
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... common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot , he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury , havock , and ...
... common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot , he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury , havock , and ...
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... common calamity . " " Doubtless , " said the Bachelor , " in that descrip- tion of De Humboldt many things give us pleasure which reasonably ought not to do so ; but does it not arise from the satisfaction that we derive from the ...
... common calamity . " " Doubtless , " said the Bachelor , " in that descrip- tion of De Humboldt many things give us pleasure which reasonably ought not to do so ; but does it not arise from the satisfaction that we derive from the ...
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... common with him , the remembrance of which can only be obliterated with their lives . All he had previously seen of volcanic phenomena , had not prepared him for what he then be- held . He had often witnessed the rivers of lava , after ...
... common with him , the remembrance of which can only be obliterated with their lives . All he had previously seen of volcanic phenomena , had not prepared him for what he then be- held . He had often witnessed the rivers of lava , after ...
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... common in the country . Externally to the street no- thing is seen but a high stone wall , with the summit of a small part of the inner building . Large double gates conduct you into an outer area , from which you pass through other ...
... common in the country . Externally to the street no- thing is seen but a high stone wall , with the summit of a small part of the inner building . Large double gates conduct you into an outer area , from which you pass through other ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole