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... fact is , that in spite of the best dispositions and capacities , and the most powerful in- ducements to action , the hero of ennui makes no ad- vances towards amendment , till he is deprived of his title and estate ! and the victim of ...
... fact is , that in spite of the best dispositions and capacities , and the most powerful in- ducements to action , the hero of ennui makes no ad- vances towards amendment , till he is deprived of his title and estate ! and the victim of ...
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... fact , ten times more on the table than was necessary ; and the entertainment was far above the circumstances of the person by whom it was given : for instance , the dish of fish at the head of the table had been brought across the ...
... fact , ten times more on the table than was necessary ; and the entertainment was far above the circumstances of the person by whom it was given : for instance , the dish of fish at the head of the table had been brought across the ...
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... fact I was informed , but the other day , by Mr. Cadell , that he had actually sold not less than sixty thousand volumes of these extraordinary productions , in the course of the preceding year ! and that the demand for them , instead ...
... fact I was informed , but the other day , by Mr. Cadell , that he had actually sold not less than sixty thousand volumes of these extraordinary productions , in the course of the preceding year ! and that the demand for them , instead ...
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... Walter , I need scarcely say that I was not in the secret of his authorship ; and in truth had no assurance of the fact , till the time of its public promulgation . 34 WAVERLEY — A GALLERY OF SCOTTISH PORTRAITS , present VOL . III . D.
... Walter , I need scarcely say that I was not in the secret of his authorship ; and in truth had no assurance of the fact , till the time of its public promulgation . 34 WAVERLEY — A GALLERY OF SCOTTISH PORTRAITS , present VOL . III . D.
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... fact . He might have made Claverhouse victorious at Drumclog , if he had thought fit - and nobody could have found fault with him . The insurgent Presbyterians of 1666 and the subsequent years , were , beyond all question , a pious ...
... fact . He might have made Claverhouse victorious at Drumclog , if he had thought fit - and nobody could have found fault with him . The insurgent Presbyterians of 1666 and the subsequent years , were , beyond all question , a pious ...
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