The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Том 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... nature , are becoming more confined in their circulation by the preffure of accumulated expences , we have great reafon to remain contented . Of the merit attached to our former volumes we fay nothing . It is needlefs . The Public , in ...
... nature , are becoming more confined in their circulation by the preffure of accumulated expences , we have great reafon to remain contented . Of the merit attached to our former volumes we fay nothing . It is needlefs . The Public , in ...
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... nature of fenfe and affection , is incapable of fuch folly . We know it has been 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 ...
... nature of fenfe and affection , is incapable of fuch folly . We know it has been 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 ...
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... nature which caft my birth in a free and civi- lized country , in an age of fcience and philofophy , in a family of honourable rank , and decently endowed with the gifts , of fortune . THE relation of a brother and a fifter , efpecially ...
... nature which caft my birth in a free and civi- lized country , in an age of fcience and philofophy , in a family of honourable rank , and decently endowed with the gifts , of fortune . THE relation of a brother and a fifter , efpecially ...
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A JOURNEY TO THE MOON . T was midnight , and nature was funk in profound water lowly from the fhore , and the breeze by fits ruftling through the grove , were the only founds which intruded upon my ear ; the firmament prefented to the ...
A JOURNEY TO THE MOON . T was midnight , and nature was funk in profound water lowly from the fhore , and the breeze by fits ruftling through the grove , were the only founds which intruded upon my ear ; the firmament prefented to the ...
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... nature , and with fentiments , which , while they gave pleafure , would prove favourable to the interefts of mo- rality and virtue ; but how was I disappointed ! pert flippant dialogue , unmeaning puns upon a name , blun- ders which ...
... nature , and with fentiments , which , while they gave pleafure , would prove favourable to the interefts of mo- rality and virtue ; but how was I disappointed ! pert flippant dialogue , unmeaning puns upon a name , blun- ders which ...
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