Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... continued course of ardent benevolence and usefulness to his fellow- creatures . The place now filled by his unworthy substitute on this occasion , he had for a considerable time before his departure from this life , and while totally ...
... continued course of ardent benevolence and usefulness to his fellow- creatures . The place now filled by his unworthy substitute on this occasion , he had for a considerable time before his departure from this life , and while totally ...
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... continued a kind of hobbling march What is the reason , said I , that the on the broken arches , but fell through tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one after another , being quite tired one end , and again loses itself in a and ...
... continued a kind of hobbling march What is the reason , said I , that the on the broken arches , but fell through tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one after another , being quite tired one end , and again loses itself in a and ...
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... continued pest gathered round his head . He to walk for a time , without the least was now roused by his danger , to a remission of his ardour , except that quick and painful remembrance of he was sometimes tempted to stop by his folly ...
... continued pest gathered round his head . He to walk for a time , without the least was now roused by his danger , to a remission of his ardour , except that quick and painful remembrance of he was sometimes tempted to stop by his folly ...
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... continued or dismissed of too burthensome an employment ; at her discretion . for my mother very judiciously con- She therefore thought herself en - sidered , that I was not likely to titled to the superintendence of her grow politer in ...
... continued or dismissed of too burthensome an employment ; at her discretion . for my mother very judiciously con- She therefore thought herself en - sidered , that I was not likely to titled to the superintendence of her grow politer in ...
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... continued to affirm , women generally are . She was very they seemed very much troubled . fair , her skin exceedingly fine , and One day I took notice that the her air and shape inexpressibly beau- young lady and gentleman , having ...
... continued to affirm , women generally are . She was very they seemed very much troubled . fair , her skin exceedingly fine , and One day I took notice that the her air and shape inexpressibly beau- young lady and gentleman , having ...
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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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