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... look them , and so clear that you cannot deny them . I must therefore beg , notwithstanding the stale slander against me , to be the mouth and orator of these honour- able gentlemen , and to state the treasons of which you stand accused ...
... look them , and so clear that you cannot deny them . I must therefore beg , notwithstanding the stale slander against me , to be the mouth and orator of these honour- able gentlemen , and to state the treasons of which you stand accused ...
Page 19
... look as if we had a latent pen- chant to be pleased with evil . May not , however , our pleasure in perusing descriptions of sorrows and ca- lamities arise from the degree of excitement which they produce on our sympathetic feelings ...
... look as if we had a latent pen- chant to be pleased with evil . May not , however , our pleasure in perusing descriptions of sorrows and ca- lamities arise from the degree of excitement which they produce on our sympathetic feelings ...
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... look very much like a description of the habitation of a slave . I must confess that of late my ideas of slavery and barbarism have been strangely unsettled . Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has opened up a view of the state of Africa of ...
... look very much like a description of the habitation of a slave . I must confess that of late my ideas of slavery and barbarism have been strangely unsettled . Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has opened up a view of the state of Africa of ...
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... Look at Miss Edgeworth's description of an Irish cottage ; you will find it at the 94th page of the first volume of her Fashionable Tales . " " It was a wretched - looking , low , mud - walled cabin . At one end it was propped by a ...
... Look at Miss Edgeworth's description of an Irish cottage ; you will find it at the 94th page of the first volume of her Fashionable Tales . " " It was a wretched - looking , low , mud - walled cabin . At one end it was propped by a ...
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... looks , The paleness of the death that was to come ; Yet cried they out like vultures , and urged on , As if they would precipitate our fates . Nor stay'd we longer for ' em , but himself Struck the first stroke , and with it fled a ...
... looks , The paleness of the death that was to come ; Yet cried they out like vultures , and urged on , As if they would precipitate our fates . Nor stay'd we longer for ' em , but himself Struck the first stroke , and with it fled a ...
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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