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The Art of Being Happy: From the French of Droz, 'Sur L'art D'ĂȘtre Heureuse ... - Page 288
by Joseph Droz - 1832 - 313 pages
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Roundabout Papers: (From the Cornhill Magazine) To which is Added, The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 664 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own profession : for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Selections from the prose writings of Jonathan Swift, with preface and notes ...

Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession : for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...few to form a general observation by. ' When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession ; for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession ; for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...learned from their own confession : for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species bom in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession : for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century: Mit ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...came to fourscore. This lie learned from their own confession : for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession : for otherwise there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they...too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only...
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Gulliver's Travels, Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1887 - 268 pages
...of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had uot only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful...
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