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Page 34
... regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race of ...
... regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race of ...
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... regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults . ” Fortunately Kent and a few others were not quite so timid , or we might still be going up and down stairs in the open air . It is true , we have heard much lately ...
... regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults . ” Fortunately Kent and a few others were not quite so timid , or we might still be going up and down stairs in the open air . It is true , we have heard much lately ...
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... regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have surpassed us , at least in meditation on the art . I have perused a grave treatise of recent ...
... regular formality is the opposite point to fantastic sharawadgis . The French , indeed , during the fash- ionable paroxysm of philosophy , have surpassed us , at least in meditation on the art . I have perused a grave treatise of recent ...
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