Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 158
... fortune , somehow or other , He had not the least notion of , or and left him a fair younger brother's regard for the public good or the portion , which he soon spent in the constitution , but despised those cares common vices of youth ...
... fortune , somehow or other , He had not the least notion of , or and left him a fair younger brother's regard for the public good or the portion , which he soon spent in the constitution , but despised those cares common vices of youth ...
Page 196
... fortune of an Englishman . Young men ( boys long before they are ripe in principle , almost ) govern there without society , neither nature nor reason have any and without sympathy with the na- opportunity to exert themselves for tives ...
... fortune of an Englishman . Young men ( boys long before they are ripe in principle , almost ) govern there without society , neither nature nor reason have any and without sympathy with the na- opportunity to exert themselves for tives ...
Page 335
... fortune depends upon the Venus and Cupid for Plutus and insincerity of his heart , the disinge- Ames - ace , and owns no mistress of nuity of his behaviour , and the false his heart except the queen of trumps . bias of his dice ! What ...
... fortune depends upon the Venus and Cupid for Plutus and insincerity of his heart , the disinge- Ames - ace , and owns no mistress of nuity of his behaviour , and the false his heart except the queen of trumps . bias of his dice ! What ...
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