The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... believe there is such a person in nature . This was only my em- ployment in solitude last summer , when I had nei- ther friends nor books to divert me . ' I was go- ing , ' said I , ' to ask her name , but I find it is only an imaginary ...
... believe there is such a person in nature . This was only my em- ployment in solitude last summer , when I had nei- ther friends nor books to divert me . ' I was go- ing , ' said I , ' to ask her name , but I find it is only an imaginary ...
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... believe , would be glad to come into the world in verse . ' We could not go on in our treaty , by reason of two or three critics that joined us . They had been talking , it seems , of the two letters which were found in the coffin , and ...
... believe , would be glad to come into the world in verse . ' We could not go on in our treaty , by reason of two or three critics that joined us . They had been talking , it seems , of the two letters which were found in the coffin , and ...
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... believe his son's doc- trine to be so pernicious as it really was , till one day talking of his setting - dog , the son said , he did not question but Tray was as immortal as any one of the family ; ' and in the heat of the argument ...
... believe his son's doc- trine to be so pernicious as it really was , till one day talking of his setting - dog , the son said , he did not question but Tray was as immortal as any one of the family ; ' and in the heat of the argument ...
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... believe you will think me in the right for bewailing the child's unlucky humour . On the other hand , I am extremely pleased to see his younger brother carry an universal benevolence to- wards every thing that has life . When he was be ...
... believe you will think me in the right for bewailing the child's unlucky humour . On the other hand , I am extremely pleased to see his younger brother carry an universal benevolence to- wards every thing that has life . When he was be ...
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... believe their fate in these cases depends upon the astrologer , and not upon the stars , as in the following letter from one , who , I fear , flatters himself with hopes of success which are altogether groundless , since he does not ...
... believe their fate in these cases depends upon the astrologer , and not upon the stars , as in the following letter from one , who , I fear , flatters himself with hopes of success which are altogether groundless , since he does not ...
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