Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... fact , much more liberality in the world than is generally supposed , while its generosity with other people's money is almost unlimited . I never knew an heiress , or a girl of fortune , whose portion was not doubled or tripled ; which ...
... fact , much more liberality in the world than is generally supposed , while its generosity with other people's money is almost unlimited . I never knew an heiress , or a girl of fortune , whose portion was not doubled or tripled ; which ...
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... fact , a complete miser , who kept living on in the same mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and ...
... fact , a complete miser , who kept living on in the same mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and ...
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... fact , they had discovered that the wheel of Minerva's car wanted a linch - pin , while there were no marks for nails in one of the horse's shoes ! Three figures now approached me , whom I found to be Agatharchus , Parrhasius , and ...
... fact , they had discovered that the wheel of Minerva's car wanted a linch - pin , while there were no marks for nails in one of the horse's shoes ! Three figures now approached me , whom I found to be Agatharchus , Parrhasius , and ...
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... fact , no human eyes rested upon it for more than twenty - two centuries , when violence tore it from its position , and exhibited it to the applauses of the world . It was thus elaborately wrought , because it would have been held ...
... fact , no human eyes rested upon it for more than twenty - two centuries , when violence tore it from its position , and exhibited it to the applauses of the world . It was thus elaborately wrought , because it would have been held ...
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... fact , Have enter'd where his head was crack'd.- Is it that addled brains perchance , When the scull's dark with ignorance , Like rotten eggs survey'd at night , Emit a temporary light ? Or is it that a heated brain , When it is rubb'd ...
... fact , Have enter'd where his head was crack'd.- Is it that addled brains perchance , When the scull's dark with ignorance , Like rotten eggs survey'd at night , Emit a temporary light ? Or is it that a heated brain , When it is rubb'd ...
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