The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Том 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... said , that the same things will act differently on different individuals , and the affer- tion may hold good in a majority of instances . But love , which has been called the universal paffion , unless in cafes of inability , is ...
... said , that the same things will act differently on different individuals , and the affer- tion may hold good in a majority of instances . But love , which has been called the universal paffion , unless in cafes of inability , is ...
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... Said a gentleman prefent : " Well , fir , what think you of this famous French author ? " - " Think , " replied he ; " Why that a dark dungeon , and fetters , would probably have been of fome fervice to reftore this author's infirmity ...
... Said a gentleman prefent : " Well , fir , what think you of this famous French author ? " - " Think , " replied he ; " Why that a dark dungeon , and fetters , would probably have been of fome fervice to reftore this author's infirmity ...
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... said a voice of heavenly sweetness . I turn- ed astonished , and beheld a more than mortal form , robed in pureft white : a lucid emanation encircled his frame ; his light hair breathing odor , flowed in ringlets over his fhoulders ...
... said a voice of heavenly sweetness . I turn- ed astonished , and beheld a more than mortal form , robed in pureft white : a lucid emanation encircled his frame ; his light hair breathing odor , flowed in ringlets over his fhoulders ...
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... said , and flew back to the combat . The victory was ours , my fon , it was ours ! but many of us were left extended on the heaps of the enemy . Thus the weary mower repofes on the fheaves himself has made . I was carefully attended ; I ...
... said , and flew back to the combat . The victory was ours , my fon , it was ours ! but many of us were left extended on the heaps of the enemy . Thus the weary mower repofes on the fheaves himself has made . I was carefully attended ; I ...
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... said the ge- nius , " that they were only acting the wretched orator ! -upon my word your judgment is moft terribly er- roneous - the perfons we have juft liftened to , conceive their powers of oratory to be of the first order - and ...
... said the ge- nius , " that they were only acting the wretched orator ! -upon my word your judgment is moft terribly er- roneous - the perfons we have juft liftened to , conceive their powers of oratory to be of the first order - and ...
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