Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... perhaps without power moment of delay takes away some- to compute the periods of life , or to thing from the value of his benefac- compare the time which is already tion . And let him who proposes his lost with that which may probably ...
... perhaps without power moment of delay takes away some- to compute the periods of life , or to thing from the value of his benefac- compare the time which is already tion . And let him who proposes his lost with that which may probably ...
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... perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth , however straitened by hereafter with satisfaction upon past rocks and waters , is capable of pro- years , must learn to know the pre- ducing more than all ...
... perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth , however straitened by hereafter with satisfaction upon past rocks and waters , is capable of pro- years , must learn to know the pre- ducing more than all ...
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... perhaps even employs the twentieth fying and entertaining those with to his ruin or disadvantage ? -But whom they converse , which are qua- because the mind cannot be always lities that seldom go asunder . in its fervours , nor strained ...
... perhaps even employs the twentieth fying and entertaining those with to his ruin or disadvantage ? -But whom they converse , which are qua- because the mind cannot be always lities that seldom go asunder . in its fervours , nor strained ...
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... perhaps will once thrown out into the great world . die in the Fleet . I know it is impossible ; and it may It should be considered , that na- even , in some cases , be improperture did not bring us into the world this , therefore , is ...
... perhaps will once thrown out into the great world . die in the Fleet . I know it is impossible ; and it may It should be considered , that na- even , in some cases , be improperture did not bring us into the world this , therefore , is ...
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... perhaps when he means and encouraging those with whom honestly . When a man has once he hath to do to repose the greatest forfeited the reputation of his integri- trust and confidence in him , which ty , he is set fast , and nothing ...
... perhaps when he means and encouraging those with whom honestly . When a man has once he hath to do to repose the greatest forfeited the reputation of his integri- trust and confidence in him , which ty , he is set fast , and nothing ...
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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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