Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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... once , by some unfortunate accident , got into general circulation in Edinburgh , among many other truly ludi- crous exemplifications of the use of the legal style of courtship , there was one letter from the Strephon to the Phyllis ...
... once , by some unfortunate accident , got into general circulation in Edinburgh , among many other truly ludi- crous exemplifications of the use of the legal style of courtship , there was one letter from the Strephon to the Phyllis ...
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... once fairly got into difficulties , and " a poinding " had gone out against him , the following would also apply : " Ille fugit per quæ fuerat loca sæpe secutus Heu ! famulos fugit ipse suos . Clamare libebat Actæon ego sum : Dominum ...
... once fairly got into difficulties , and " a poinding " had gone out against him , the following would also apply : " Ille fugit per quæ fuerat loca sæpe secutus Heu ! famulos fugit ipse suos . Clamare libebat Actæon ego sum : Dominum ...
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... once a very high compliment to the profession itself , and the most unequivocal proof of the masterly and com- manding power of the man's intellect . If I have 5 ever seen any countenance which I should con- sider as MR CLERK . 51.
... once a very high compliment to the profession itself , and the most unequivocal proof of the masterly and com- manding power of the man's intellect . If I have 5 ever seen any countenance which I should con- sider as MR CLERK . 51.
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... once had a beginning ) ; and he spent , therefore , many years of his manhood in the exquisite intellectual enjoyments of an elegant scholar , before he had either inclination or occasion to devote himself entirely to the more repulsive ...
... once had a beginning ) ; and he spent , therefore , many years of his manhood in the exquisite intellectual enjoyments of an elegant scholar , before he had either inclination or occasion to devote himself entirely to the more repulsive ...
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... once promised to do so much , and of which , in the midst of his severer occupations , so many beau- tiful glimpses have from time to time escaped him ; or whether he seek , in the retirement of his honourable ease , to reduce into an ...
... once promised to do so much , and of which , in the midst of his severer occupations , so many beau- tiful glimpses have from time to time escaped him ; or whether he seek , in the retirement of his honourable ease , to reduce into an ...
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