A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... order to explain the more difficult parts , I shall very gratefully acknowledge the favour , and print it by itself . THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY 210 THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER .
... order to explain the more difficult parts , I shall very gratefully acknowledge the favour , and print it by itself . THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY 210 THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER .
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Laurence Sterne. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY . * SIR , I here present your Highness with the fruits of a very few leisure hours stolen from the short inter- vals of a world of business , and of an ...
Laurence Sterne. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY . * SIR , I here present your Highness with the fruits of a very few leisure hours stolen from the short inter- vals of a world of business , and of an ...
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... Highness who is to be the author of this uni- versal ruin , I beseech you to observe that large and terrible scythe which your governor affects to bear continually about him . Be pleased to remark the length and strength , the sharpness ...
... Highness who is to be the author of this uni- versal ruin , I beseech you to observe that large and terrible scythe which your governor affects to bear continually about him . Be pleased to remark the length and strength , the sharpness ...
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... Highness , as an undisputed argument for what I affirm : the originals were posted fresh upon all gates and corners ... Highness that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon particulars is a task too slippery for my slender ...
... Highness , as an undisputed argument for what I affirm : the originals were posted fresh upon all gates and corners ... Highness that we do abound in learning and wit ; but to fix upon particulars is a task too slippery for my slender ...
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... Highness that with these eyes I have beheld the 營 Bentley , in his controversy with Lord Orrery upon the genuine- ness of Phalaris ' epistles , has given in a preface a long account of his dialogues with a bookseller about the loan and ...
... Highness that with these eyes I have beheld the 營 Bentley , in his controversy with Lord Orrery upon the genuine- ness of Phalaris ' epistles , has given in a preface a long account of his dialogues with a bookseller about the loan and ...
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