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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... person , certain half - crown pieces , which they had formerly lent him to buy a dinner . - For Heaven's sake never indulge in any thing romantic , à la Oswald , à la Corinne ; that superb apparatus of sentiments , rarified in the ...
... person , certain half - crown pieces , which they had formerly lent him to buy a dinner . - For Heaven's sake never indulge in any thing romantic , à la Oswald , à la Corinne ; that superb apparatus of sentiments , rarified in the ...
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... persons , however , should make a serious study of dancing , which is to marriage what the candle is to the moth : it is the principal flame at which Hymen lights his torch . I recommend them , then , to frequent all balls , public and ...
... persons , however , should make a serious study of dancing , which is to marriage what the candle is to the moth : it is the principal flame at which Hymen lights his torch . I recommend them , then , to frequent all balls , public and ...
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... person , and one hated of God . During the most barbarous period of their history , that is to say , up to the time of Alexander the Great , the Greeks wore their beards ; but that prince ordered the Macedonians to be shaved , lest this ...
... person , and one hated of God . During the most barbarous period of their history , that is to say , up to the time of Alexander the Great , the Greeks wore their beards ; but that prince ordered the Macedonians to be shaved , lest this ...
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... persons arrived who fully con- firmed his statement . Another testimony to the zeal , constancy , and veracity , by which the class has ever been distinguished . Pliny observes , that up to the 454th year of Rome , precisely the most ...
... persons arrived who fully con- firmed his statement . Another testimony to the zeal , constancy , and veracity , by which the class has ever been distinguished . Pliny observes , that up to the 454th year of Rome , precisely the most ...
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... person using any shaving or barbery in London , shall occupy any surgery , letting of blood or other matter ; drawing of teeth only excepted . And no person using the mystery or craft of surgery shall occupy or exercise the feat or ...
... person using any shaving or barbery in London , shall occupy any surgery , letting of blood or other matter ; drawing of teeth only excepted . And no person using the mystery or craft of surgery shall occupy or exercise the feat or ...
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