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Page 95
... rest of the pew , good thoughts and dispositions , they have been all in a moment dissipated by a merry jig from the organ - loft . One knows not what further ill effects the epilogues I have been speaking of may in time produce but ...
... rest of the pew , good thoughts and dispositions , they have been all in a moment dissipated by a merry jig from the organ - loft . One knows not what further ill effects the epilogues I have been speaking of may in time produce but ...
Page 124
... rest of the company entertain , ate so immoderately for their applause , as had like to have cost me my life . What added to my misfor- tune was , that having naturally a good stomach , and having lived soberly for some time , my body ...
... rest of the company entertain , ate so immoderately for their applause , as had like to have cost me my life . What added to my misfor- tune was , that having naturally a good stomach , and having lived soberly for some time , my body ...
Page 284
... rest , stands in a press of people ; those before him intercept his progress , and those behind him , if he does not urge on , will tread him down . Cæsar , of whom it was said , that he thought nothing done while there was any thing ...
... rest , stands in a press of people ; those before him intercept his progress , and those behind him , if he does not urge on , will tread him down . Cæsar , of whom it was said , that he thought nothing done while there was any thing ...
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