Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... give me something that will make me more heartily happy , I am content to be gazed at as I am , without lessening my respect for those whose passions may be more soberly covered . Yet , sir , will I not deceive you ; ' tis not the ...
... give me something that will make me more heartily happy , I am content to be gazed at as I am , without lessening my respect for those whose passions may be more soberly covered . Yet , sir , will I not deceive you ; ' tis not the ...
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... give you less concern to find your name in an impertinent satire , than before the daintiest dedication of a modern author , I con- ceal it . Let me talk never so idly to you this way , you are at least under no necessity of taking it ...
... give you less concern to find your name in an impertinent satire , than before the daintiest dedication of a modern author , I con- ceal it . Let me talk never so idly to you this way , you are at least under no necessity of taking it ...
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... give me stronger hopes : for was not the complaisance of a whole evening's attention as much as an author of more importance ought to have expected ? Why then was I desired the next day to give you a second lecture ? Or why was I kept a ...
... give me stronger hopes : for was not the complaisance of a whole evening's attention as much as an author of more importance ought to have expected ? Why then was I desired the next day to give you a second lecture ? Or why was I kept a ...
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... give the public some memoirs of my own life ; at which you have never failed to laugh like a friend , without saying a word to dissuade me from it : concluding , I suppose , that such a wild thought could not possibly require a serious ...
... give the public some memoirs of my own life ; at which you have never failed to laugh like a friend , without saying a word to dissuade me from it : concluding , I suppose , that such a wild thought could not possibly require a serious ...
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... give myself all this trouble ? Is it for fame , or profit to myself , or use or delight to others ? For all these considerations I have neither fondness nor indifference : if I obtain none of them , the amusement , at worst , will be a ...
... give myself all this trouble ? Is it for fame , or profit to myself , or use or delight to others ? For all these considerations I have neither fondness nor indifference : if I obtain none of them , the amusement , at worst , will be a ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
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