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... honoured with some memorial in my cabinets . The Persian monarchs are said to have boasted the greatness of their ... honour which my labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care ...
... honoured with some memorial in my cabinets . The Persian monarchs are said to have boasted the greatness of their ... honour which my labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care ...
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... honour to any but its in- ventor . There are , I think , two schemes of writing , on which the laborious wits of the present time employ their faculties . One is the adaptation of sense to all the rhymes which our language can supply to ...
... honour to any but its in- ventor . There are , I think , two schemes of writing , on which the laborious wits of the present time employ their faculties . One is the adaptation of sense to all the rhymes which our language can supply to ...
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... honour of my family . I therefore bought guns and horses , and , contrary to the expec- tation of the tenants , increased the salary of the huntsman . But when I entered the field , it was soon discovered that I was not destined to the ...
... honour of my family . I therefore bought guns and horses , and , contrary to the expec- tation of the tenants , increased the salary of the huntsman . But when I entered the field , it was soon discovered that I was not destined to the ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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