The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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... poor against the rich ? Spartan sobriety ! Their generals lost the battle of Leuctra by getting drunk . Bravery ! They were often beaten - they succeeded always more by fraud than force , and by bribery seconding their fraud . Highly ...
... poor against the rich ? Spartan sobriety ! Their generals lost the battle of Leuctra by getting drunk . Bravery ! They were often beaten - they succeeded always more by fraud than force , and by bribery seconding their fraud . Highly ...
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... poor Claude detects him at the pine - grove where he meets his mistress , breaks out into rage , and slanders the girl he had cheated ! What follows seems to us very finely conceived , and executed with great power . During this moral ...
... poor Claude detects him at the pine - grove where he meets his mistress , breaks out into rage , and slanders the girl he had cheated ! What follows seems to us very finely conceived , and executed with great power . During this moral ...
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... poor piece of glass which furnishes the reflection . Then , Sir , with regard to the snuff : I informed him , that the man- ner of that interesting movement was an amenity which I inherited from my ancestors ; eminent snuff - takers in ...
... poor piece of glass which furnishes the reflection . Then , Sir , with regard to the snuff : I informed him , that the man- ner of that interesting movement was an amenity which I inherited from my ancestors ; eminent snuff - takers in ...
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... poor unwilling little soul from a parcel of rascals at three o'clock this morning , July the 4th - a piece of virtue , ' says he , which I put in the book , in order that the other writers of it , past and to come , may not take me for ...
... poor unwilling little soul from a parcel of rascals at three o'clock this morning , July the 4th - a piece of virtue , ' says he , which I put in the book , in order that the other writers of it , past and to come , may not take me for ...
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... poor Dick Honeycomb ! He had sweet blood in him . He ought to have lived with me and the women , and not with those drunken dogs my friends . ' -I must not forget , that among other immortal things of my ancestor's doing in the polite ...
... poor Dick Honeycomb ! He had sweet blood in him . He ought to have lived with me and the women , and not with those drunken dogs my friends . ' -I must not forget , that among other immortal things of my ancestor's doing in the polite ...
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