Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... leaving my history , when I think a digression may make it lighter for my reader's digestion ) -this work , I say ... leave therefore to open the first scene of my life from the very day I came into it ; and though ( considering my ...
... leaving my history , when I think a digression may make it lighter for my reader's digestion ) -this work , I say ... leave therefore to open the first scene of my life from the very day I came into it ; and though ( considering my ...
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... leave to tell you a school story . A great boy , near the head taller than myself , in some wrangle at play had insulted me ; upon which I was fool - hardy enough to give him a box on the ear ; the blow was soon returned , with another ...
... leave to tell you a school story . A great boy , near the head taller than myself , in some wrangle at play had insulted me ; upon which I was fool - hardy enough to give him a box on the ear ; the blow was soon returned , with another ...
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... leaving it off . When you are conscious that your antagonist can give as well as take , then indeed the smarter the hit , the more agreeable the party : a man of cheerful sense , among friends , will never be grave upon an attack of ...
... leaving it off . When you are conscious that your antagonist can give as well as take , then indeed the smarter the hit , the more agreeable the party : a man of cheerful sense , among friends , will never be grave upon an attack of ...
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... leave to take them separately . The first of them then has a title , and- -no matter what ; I am not to speak of the great , but the happy , part of his character , and in this one single light - not of his being an illustrious , but a ...
... leave to take them separately . The first of them then has a title , and- -no matter what ; I am not to speak of the great , but the happy , part of his character , and in this one single light - not of his being an illustrious , but a ...
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... leaves it , they who have business have then leisure to go about it . Having often had the honour to be myself the butt of his raillery , I must own I have received more pleasure from his lively manner of raising the laugh against me ...
... leaves it , they who have business have then leisure to go about it . Having often had the honour to be myself the butt of his raillery , I must own I have received more pleasure from his lively manner of raising the laugh against me ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever ... BiblioBazaar Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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