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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... earth . The learned author of Hermes informs us , that to about twenty plain elementary sounds we owe that variety of articu- late voices which have been sufficient to explain the sentiments of such an innumerable multitude as all the ...
... earth . The learned author of Hermes informs us , that to about twenty plain elementary sounds we owe that variety of articu- late voices which have been sufficient to explain the sentiments of such an innumerable multitude as all the ...
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... earth are under tonsorial subjection , which is rejected by none but savages and barbarians . How can we expect the Turks to do otherwise than massacre their Greek prisoners , when they swear by one another's beards , and their most ...
... earth are under tonsorial subjection , which is rejected by none but savages and barbarians . How can we expect the Turks to do otherwise than massacre their Greek prisoners , when they swear by one another's beards , and their most ...
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... earth ; while a few summoned a whole pandemonium of out- raged chastity in their countenances , and passed him with a fling of ineffable scorn ; but he was too absent and heedless to be even conscious of the cut direct and insolent ...
... earth ; while a few summoned a whole pandemonium of out- raged chastity in their countenances , and passed him with a fling of ineffable scorn ; but he was too absent and heedless to be even conscious of the cut direct and insolent ...
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... earth beneath the dread concussion rock'd . Nile from his banks receded with affright , The startled Sphinx long trembled at the sound ; While from each pyramid's astounded height , The loosen'd stones slid rattling to the ground . I ...
... earth beneath the dread concussion rock'd . Nile from his banks receded with affright , The startled Sphinx long trembled at the sound ; While from each pyramid's astounded height , The loosen'd stones slid rattling to the ground . I ...
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... Earth , has employed in performing his last gallop around the sun . A foreigner of distinction once asked a British member of Parliament what had passed in the last session ; - " Five months and fourteen days , " was the reply and if ...
... Earth , has employed in performing his last gallop around the sun . A foreigner of distinction once asked a British member of Parliament what had passed in the last session ; - " Five months and fourteen days , " was the reply and if ...
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