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... these . Befides what an additional number of horfes is used for chaifes , and the other machines , every where now employed for the conveniency of travellers ; and what an additional number is used for carriages to our additional build ...
... these . Befides what an additional number of horfes is used for chaifes , and the other machines , every where now employed for the conveniency of travellers ; and what an additional number is used for carriages to our additional build ...
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... These are the perfons who do the bufinefs for trifling falaries , while the principals never think of it , and indeed are commonly incapable of it . Surely thofe perfons are loft to all fense of shame , who , rich and idle , can behold ...
... These are the perfons who do the bufinefs for trifling falaries , while the principals never think of it , and indeed are commonly incapable of it . Surely thofe perfons are loft to all fense of shame , who , rich and idle , can behold ...
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... these Indians fhould not have made a farther progress towards the comforts and conveniences of life as to their spoiling their complexions with oils and juices , we cannot so much wonder at it , because we fee fomewhat of the fame kind ...
... these Indians fhould not have made a farther progress towards the comforts and conveniences of life as to their spoiling their complexions with oils and juices , we cannot so much wonder at it , because we fee fomewhat of the fame kind ...
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... these minutia , not with a view to cavil at the little escapes of a pen which feems happily adapted to the ease and fimplicity of epiftolary writing , but merely to remind Mr. B. that although , in private letters , never intended for ...
... these minutia , not with a view to cavil at the little escapes of a pen which feems happily adapted to the ease and fimplicity of epiftolary writing , but merely to remind Mr. B. that although , in private letters , never intended for ...
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... these are reared over the very roofs of Pompeia and Stabia , where Pliny perished ; and with their foundations have pierced through the facred abodes of the antient Romans ; -thousands of whom lie buried here , the vic- tims of this ...
... these are reared over the very roofs of Pompeia and Stabia , where Pliny perished ; and with their foundations have pierced through the facred abodes of the antient Romans ; -thousands of whom lie buried here , the vic- tims of this ...
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Page 418 - Congreve's four comedies, two are concluded by a marriage in a mask, by a deception, which perhaps never happened, and which, whether likely or not, he did not invent. So careless was this great poet of future fame, that though he retired to ease and plenty, while he was yet little declined into the vale of years...
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Page 111 - The evils of this life appear like rocks and precipices, rugged and barren at a distance ; but at our nearer approach we find little fruitful spots, and refreshing springs, mixed with the harshness and deformities of nature.