Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... called Catholic emancipation , but also thought , that , with proper securities , it was contrary to sound policy and justice , no less than to the benign spirit of the Gospel , to impose civil disabilities upon so many millions of the ...
... called Catholic emancipation , but also thought , that , with proper securities , it was contrary to sound policy and justice , no less than to the benign spirit of the Gospel , to impose civil disabilities upon so many millions of the ...
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... called veries . There , a generous emula- beaus , the happiness of those men tion , a noble thirst of fame , a love of necessarily terminating with their truth and honourable regards , reign childhood , who , from a want of in minds as ...
... called veries . There , a generous emula- beaus , the happiness of those men tion , a noble thirst of fame , a love of necessarily terminating with their truth and honourable regards , reign childhood , who , from a want of in minds as ...
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... called upon to be- majesty which his works every where come more formal and solemn in display ? Untouched by gratitude , your manners than others of the same can you view that profusion of good , years ; or to erect yourselves into su ...
... called upon to be- majesty which his works every where come more formal and solemn in display ? Untouched by gratitude , your manners than others of the same can you view that profusion of good , years ; or to erect yourselves into su ...
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... called by the name of Hymen , behaviour of a harlot : the name of and was seated near the entrance of the second was Contention , who bore the temple , in a delicious bower , on her right arm a muff made of the made up of several trees ...
... called by the name of Hymen , behaviour of a harlot : the name of and was seated near the entrance of the second was Contention , who bore the temple , in a delicious bower , on her right arm a muff made of the made up of several trees ...
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... called Remorse , that held a scourge they chose to make it in shade and of scorpions in his hand , and drove obscurity . The edifices , at the ex- them into the only outlet from that tremity of the walk , were so con- temple . This was ...
... called Remorse , that held a scourge they chose to make it in shade and of scorpions in his hand , and drove obscurity . The edifices , at the ex- them into the only outlet from that tremity of the walk , were so con- temple . This was ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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