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... sense , as Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands . I mean that he was the first to realise , or at least to record , their beauty -the first to put into words the feelings which they now stir in every sympathetic mind . Writing ...
... sense , as Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands . I mean that he was the first to realise , or at least to record , their beauty -the first to put into words the feelings which they now stir in every sympathetic mind . Writing ...
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... sense to take advantage of it ; he freely told me my faults . I declared I did not desire to hear them , nor would correct them . You will not wonder that with the dignity of his spirit , and the obstinate careless- ness of mine , the ...
... sense to take advantage of it ; he freely told me my faults . I declared I did not desire to hear them , nor would correct them . You will not wonder that with the dignity of his spirit , and the obstinate careless- ness of mine , the ...
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... sense to feel , with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , Th ' event presages , and explores the cause . The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud ...
... sense to feel , with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , Th ' event presages , and explores the cause . The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud ...
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