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... whole , be very agreeable . Something of this I have seen in some places , but heard more of it from others , who have lived much among the Chinese , a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe , as their coun ...
... whole , be very agreeable . Something of this I have seen in some places , but heard more of it from others , who have lived much among the Chinese , a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe , as their coun ...
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... whole is as elegant and antique as if the emperor Julian had selected the most pleasing solitude about Daphne to enjoy a philosophic retirement . That Kent's ideas were but rarely great , was in some measure owing to the novelty of his ...
... whole is as elegant and antique as if the emperor Julian had selected the most pleasing solitude about Daphne to enjoy a philosophic retirement . That Kent's ideas were but rarely great , was in some measure owing to the novelty of his ...
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... whole , pleasure , as any of his editions . The Duc de Nivernois — a literary Frenchman who had been Ambassador in London twenty years before - translated the text into language that could only be compared to Mme . de Sévigné's . The ...
... whole , pleasure , as any of his editions . The Duc de Nivernois — a literary Frenchman who had been Ambassador in London twenty years before - translated the text into language that could only be compared to Mme . de Sévigné's . The ...
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