Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... serve to bind these sort of relations the parlour to him , and make his faster , and endear the ties of blood heart glad with an account of a mat- with those of good - will , protection , ter which was of no consequence , observance ...
... serve to bind these sort of relations the parlour to him , and make his faster , and endear the ties of blood heart glad with an account of a mat- with those of good - will , protection , ter which was of no consequence , observance ...
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... serves no other pur- The proverbial oracles of our par- pose , than that of enabling us to en- simonious ancestors have informed joy the rest . us , that the fatal waste of fortune is Of the few moments which are by small expenses , by ...
... serves no other pur- The proverbial oracles of our par- pose , than that of enabling us to en- simonious ancestors have informed joy the rest . us , that the fatal waste of fortune is Of the few moments which are by small expenses , by ...
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... serve his turn , neither truth nor business and affairs of life . falsehood . Truth is always consistent with And I have often thought that itself , and needs nothing to help it God hath , in his great wisdom , hid out ; it is always ...
... serve his turn , neither truth nor business and affairs of life . falsehood . Truth is always consistent with And I have often thought that itself , and needs nothing to help it God hath , in his great wisdom , hid out ; it is always ...
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... serve up , and the sun shines with a more well enough . Bright and sparkling agreeable lustre but when old age parts are like diamonds , which may has cut them off from the enjoyment adorn the proprietor , but are not ne- of false ...
... serve up , and the sun shines with a more well enough . Bright and sparkling agreeable lustre but when old age parts are like diamonds , which may has cut them off from the enjoyment adorn the proprietor , but are not ne- of false ...
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... serve only to corrupt , inflame , and ness , extravagance , and riot ? With torment them . They are fed with what an aggravation of guilt do they food convenient for them ; with sim - load themselves , who at the same plicity yet ...
... serve only to corrupt , inflame , and ness , extravagance , and riot ? With torment them . They are fed with what an aggravation of guilt do they food convenient for them ; with sim - load themselves , who at the same plicity yet ...
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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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