Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... state of confufion and distress , he went to the house ; where he learned that his father had died early in the morning , and that his relations were then assembled to read his will . Fulvius , a brother of Mercator's mother , with whom ...
... state of confufion and distress , he went to the house ; where he learned that his father had died early in the morning , and that his relations were then assembled to read his will . Fulvius , a brother of Mercator's mother , with whom ...
Page 71
... state , full of uncer- tainty and vicifsitude , of anxieties and fears . For no man's profperity on earth is stable and assured ; hence no study , to a thoughtful mind , can appear more important than how to be fuitably pre- pared for ...
... state , full of uncer- tainty and vicifsitude , of anxieties and fears . For no man's profperity on earth is stable and assured ; hence no study , to a thoughtful mind , can appear more important than how to be fuitably pre- pared for ...
Page 82
... State to write the Gazette , with a falary of 300l . a year , paying a tax of 451. I am also gentleman waiter to his Royal Highness the Prince , with a falary of 100l . a year , not fubject to taxes . Thus my whole income is at pre ...
... State to write the Gazette , with a falary of 300l . a year , paying a tax of 451. I am also gentleman waiter to his Royal Highness the Prince , with a falary of 100l . a year , not fubject to taxes . Thus my whole income is at pre ...
Page 133
... state , may be attached to each other from a spirit of sociality ; in this it may not be amiss to recount a different motive , which has been known to create as strange a fondness . My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him ...
... state , may be attached to each other from a spirit of sociality ; in this it may not be amiss to recount a different motive , which has been known to create as strange a fondness . My friend had a little helpless leveret brought to him ...
Page 134
... Remus , in their infant state , should be nursed by a she - wolf , than that a poor little fucking leveret should be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin . ANECDOTE ANECDOTE OF د . JAMES I. KING OF ENGLAND . [ 134 ]
... Remus , in their infant state , should be nursed by a she - wolf , than that a poor little fucking leveret should be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin . ANECDOTE ANECDOTE OF د . JAMES I. KING OF ENGLAND . [ 134 ]
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