Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... concern and Frenchman , she should have imagin- care for me , as raised in me a great ed that I was the person for whom inclination and tenderness for her . the picture was drawn , because it She came every day into my cham- exactly ...
... concern and Frenchman , she should have imagin- care for me , as raised in me a great ed that I was the person for whom inclination and tenderness for her . the picture was drawn , because it She came every day into my cham- exactly ...
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... concerns , and thereby to crimes which spring from great am- disturb and counteract the natural bition , or great revenge . Habit gives course of things . One frivolous the passions strength , while the ab- amusement indulged out of ...
... concerns , and thereby to crimes which spring from great am- disturb and counteract the natural bition , or great revenge . Habit gives course of things . One frivolous the passions strength , while the ab- amusement indulged out of ...
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... concerns , which becomes a good I must also admonish you , that in man , they are subversive of order , small , as well as in great affairs , a due and inconsistent with your duty . regard to order is requisite . I mean What is innocent ...
... concerns , which becomes a good I must also admonish you , that in man , they are subversive of order , small , as well as in great affairs , a due and inconsistent with your duty . regard to order is requisite . I mean What is innocent ...
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... concerns of his friends with ar - union . mies . dour ; and to all with whom he has Particularly in the course of that intercourse , is gentle , obliging , and familiar intercourse which belongs to humane . How amiable appears such ...
... concerns of his friends with ar - union . mies . dour ; and to all with whom he has Particularly in the course of that intercourse , is gentle , obliging , and familiar intercourse which belongs to humane . How amiable appears such ...
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... concern- see those they have been connected ed . On this subject , the greatest with by the strongest bonds of nature efforts of human genius and applica- and friendship gradually disappear- tion have been exerted , and with the ing ...
... concern- see those they have been connected ed . On this subject , the greatest with by the strongest bonds of nature efforts of human genius and applica- and friendship gradually disappear- tion have been exerted , and with the ing ...
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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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