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... thousand intimate acquaint ances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . WHEN Once you profefs yourself a friend , endeavour to be always fuch . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
... thousand intimate acquaint ances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . WHEN Once you profefs yourself a friend , endeavour to be always fuch . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
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... thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the ear cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept ...
... thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the ear cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept ...
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... thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action . CHA P. VI . ΤΗ up HE latter part of a wife man's life is taken in curing the follies , prejudices , and falfe ...
... thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action . CHA P. VI . ΤΗ up HE latter part of a wife man's life is taken in curing the follies , prejudices , and falfe ...
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... were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains , what language can express- D 5 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
... were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains , what language can express- D 5 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
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... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathlefs corfe himself he threw , And to her clay - cold lips , with trembling hafte , Ten thousand kiffes gave . Heftrove to speak Nor words he found : he claspt her in his ...
... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathlefs corfe himself he threw , And to her clay - cold lips , with trembling hafte , Ten thousand kiffes gave . Heftrove to speak Nor words he found : he claspt her in his ...
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