Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Том 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 страници |
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... look out for a good bulky dowager , or an im- posing and substantial baroness of fifty - five , who drinks freely at every meal her bottle of best claret , never reads any thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a ...
... look out for a good bulky dowager , or an im- posing and substantial baroness of fifty - five , who drinks freely at every meal her bottle of best claret , never reads any thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a ...
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... looks down with scorn upon her own mother , who is for ever breaking poor Priscian's head , and sometimes offends her ear by a pleonasm , and sometimes by a blunder in prosody . Even the chambermaid cannot ply her broom without doing an ...
... looks down with scorn upon her own mother , who is for ever breaking poor Priscian's head , and sometimes offends her ear by a pleonasm , and sometimes by a blunder in prosody . Even the chambermaid cannot ply her broom without doing an ...
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... look- ing for a middle - aged man , she now , with a toss of ineffable anger and disdain , most energetically termed him a good - for - nothing nasty old fellow ; and the obse- quious village re - echoed the assertion . Footmen , boys ...
... look- ing for a middle - aged man , she now , with a toss of ineffable anger and disdain , most energetically termed him a good - for - nothing nasty old fellow ; and the obse- quious village re - echoed the assertion . Footmen , boys ...
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... look coldly on and see them deprived of their humble rights . " Recipro- cal forbearance and protection are the upholding principles of the social compact , and the best security for the continuance of the former is the scrupulous ...
... look coldly on and see them deprived of their humble rights . " Recipro- cal forbearance and protection are the upholding principles of the social compact , and the best security for the continuance of the former is the scrupulous ...
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... looks , when he saw Mr. Clinch at table , with paper before him and pen in hand . Standing close to the door , as if fearful of advancing , he cast a most suspi- cious glance from his little grey eyes , which , from the bend of his body ...
... looks , when he saw Mr. Clinch at table , with paper before him and pen in hand . Standing close to the door , as if fearful of advancing , he cast a most suspi- cious glance from his little grey eyes , which , from the bend of his body ...
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