Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... carried me to Warsaw , where they usually retired to a corner of I was lodged in her house until my the chamber , where they seemed health should allow me to wait on to converse with great earnestness . the queen . The aspect of the ...
... carried me to Warsaw , where they usually retired to a corner of I was lodged in her house until my the chamber , where they seemed health should allow me to wait on to converse with great earnestness . the queen . The aspect of the ...
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... carried forward , how- the system could have given such ever swiftly , by a motion equable and commodious distributions of light easy , perceives not the change of and heat , or imparted fertility and place but by the variation of ...
... carried forward , how- the system could have given such ever swiftly , by a motion equable and commodious distributions of light easy , perceives not the change of and heat , or imparted fertility and place but by the variation of ...
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... carry this consideration higher , by colours that are more luminous , over- observing , that if matter had appear ... carrying on her cheerful temper , as offer themselves great work , and intent upon her own to persons of all ranks and ...
... carry this consideration higher , by colours that are more luminous , over- observing , that if matter had appear ... carrying on her cheerful temper , as offer themselves great work , and intent upon her own to persons of all ranks and ...
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... carry a same in both cases , viz . that he who great weight , or to go through any will do no good , ought not to receive long journey ; whereas men of fewer or enjoy any . As we are all joint ideas , who lay them in order , com ...
... carry a same in both cases , viz . that he who great weight , or to go through any will do no good , ought not to receive long journey ; whereas men of fewer or enjoy any . As we are all joint ideas , who lay them in order , com ...
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... carried gent - spect , similar in their process ; and , ly and supinely down the smooth though by different roads ... carry them duties , and the higher business of to a serene and secure haven . life . Human life cannot proceed , to ...
... carried gent - spect , similar in their process ; and , ly and supinely down the smooth though by different roads ... carry them duties , and the higher business of to a serene and secure haven . life . Human life cannot proceed , to ...
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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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