The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... hand , cudgelled him out of his system . This had so good an effect upon him , that he took up from that day , fell to reading good books , and is now a bencher in the Middle - Temple . 6 I do not mention this cudgelling part of the ...
... hand , cudgelled him out of his system . This had so good an effect upon him , that he took up from that day , fell to reading good books , and is now a bencher in the Middle - Temple . 6 I do not mention this cudgelling part of the ...
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... hand to feign acts more heroical . Because true history reports the successes of business not proportionable to the merit of virtues and vices , poesy corrects it , and presents events and fortunes according to desert , and according to ...
... hand to feign acts more heroical . Because true history reports the successes of business not proportionable to the merit of virtues and vices , poesy corrects it , and presents events and fortunes according to desert , and according to ...
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... hand , that she pays every body their own , and yet makes daily new acquaintances . ' I know not whether this agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out of my sight , it ...
... hand , that she pays every body their own , and yet makes daily new acquaintances . ' I know not whether this agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out of my sight , it ...
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... hand received many appeals from the aforesaid dead persons , wherein they desire to be heard before such their interment ; I have set apart Wednesday , the twenty - first instant , as an extraordinary court - day for the hearing both ...
... hand received many appeals from the aforesaid dead persons , wherein they desire to be heard before such their interment ; I have set apart Wednesday , the twenty - first instant , as an extraordinary court - day for the hearing both ...
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... hand , that I am likely to be a very miserable man , through the perverse temper of my eldest boy . When the frost was in its ex- tremity , you must know that most of the black- birds , robins , and finches of the parish , whose music ...
... hand , that I am likely to be a very miserable man , through the perverse temper of my eldest boy . When the frost was in its ex- tremity , you must know that most of the black- birds , robins , and finches of the parish , whose music ...
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