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visit some other , lace , which will afford equal matter for observation . I will
conduct you to one of the many focieries in this metropolis where different
questions are difcuffed . We quitted the coffee - house , and as I passed along I
was very ...
visit some other , lace , which will afford equal matter for observation . I will
conduct you to one of the many focieries in this metropolis where different
questions are difcuffed . We quitted the coffee - house , and as I passed along I
was very ...
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This last folemn asseveration does equal credit to his Lordship ' s integrity and
reputation . Odes and Miscellanies , by Robert Farren Cheetham . Champante
and Whitrow . 6s . IN the volume before us , we discern marks of genius and of ...
This last folemn asseveration does equal credit to his Lordship ' s integrity and
reputation . Odes and Miscellanies , by Robert Farren Cheetham . Champante
and Whitrow . 6s . IN the volume before us , we discern marks of genius and of ...
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Perhaps there is not on record an instance of two statesmen who were rivals ,
being succeeded in equal rivalry by their sons - - - certainly not with so many
concurrent circumstances . GENERAL CRITICISM ON DR . JOHNSON ' S
WRITINGS .
Perhaps there is not on record an instance of two statesmen who were rivals ,
being succeeded in equal rivalry by their sons - - - certainly not with so many
concurrent circumstances . GENERAL CRITICISM ON DR . JOHNSON ' S
WRITINGS .
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Nothing , in fact , can equal the beauty of the nor . thern summer ' s evening and
night ; if night it may be called that only wants the glare of day , the full light ,
which frequently seems so impertinent ; for I could write at midnight very well
without ...
Nothing , in fact , can equal the beauty of the nor . thern summer ' s evening and
night ; if night it may be called that only wants the glare of day , the full light ,
which frequently seems so impertinent ; for I could write at midnight very well
without ...
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An equal number of men in the entrenchments at Fort Kehl , stopped , for two
months , a numerous and vi & torious army , better skilled in war than the English
, and provided with able engineers , good bcfieging artillery , and expert ...
An equal number of men in the entrenchments at Fort Kehl , stopped , for two
months , a numerous and vi & torious army , better skilled in war than the English
, and provided with able engineers , good bcfieging artillery , and expert ...
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