Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... able to bring you a heart that has just sense enough to mix respect with intimacy , and is never more delight- ed than when your rural hours of leisure admit me , with all my laughing spirits , to be my idle self , and in the whole ...
... able to bring you a heart that has just sense enough to mix respect with intimacy , and is never more delight- ed than when your rural hours of leisure admit me , with all my laughing spirits , to be my idle self , and in the whole ...
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... able to laugh while we are about it - to make even society the subservient reward of it - is a state of happiness which the gravest precepts of moral wisdom will not easily teach us to exceed . When I speak of happiness , I go no higher ...
... able to laugh while we are about it - to make even society the subservient reward of it - is a state of happiness which the gravest precepts of moral wisdom will not easily teach us to exceed . When I speak of happiness , I go no higher ...
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... able to conceal them , -as therefore what arises from the boy may possibly be a lesson to the man , I shall venture to relate a fact or two that happened while I was still at school . In February , 1684-5 , died king Charles II , who ...
... able to conceal them , -as therefore what arises from the boy may possibly be a lesson to the man , I shall venture to relate a fact or two that happened while I was still at school . In February , 1684-5 , died king Charles II , who ...
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... able to expose them by a laughing reply , will not that reply beget a rejoinder ? And though they might be gainers , by having the worst on't , in a paper war , that is no temptation for me to come into it . Or ( to make both sides less ...
... able to expose them by a laughing reply , will not that reply beget a rejoinder ? And though they might be gainers , by having the worst on't , in a paper war , that is no temptation for me to come into it . Or ( to make both sides less ...
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... able to furnish us with unex- ceptionable statesmen ; for from that time I do not re- member any one set of ministers that have not been heartily railed at ; a period long enough , one would think ( if all of them have been as bad as ...
... able to furnish us with unex- ceptionable statesmen ; for from that time I do not re- member any one set of ministers that have not been heartily railed at ; a period long enough , one would think ( if all of them have been as bad as ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
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