Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate MoralityT.N. Longman, 1796 - Anecdotes |
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... foon returned from his fifter , he could not have time , Downing having come much about the time Fleming returned . This story was told by feveral , who frequented King Charles's Court after the restoration ; parti- cularly by the Earl ...
... foon returned from his fifter , he could not have time , Downing having come much about the time Fleming returned . This story was told by feveral , who frequented King Charles's Court after the restoration ; parti- cularly by the Earl ...
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... foon , " faid the father to him , furprized at his quick return . " You ordered me ( answered the fon ) to feek out a friend , and I can occafionally produce fifty , all patterns of true friendship . " 6 " Son , ( anfwered the merchant ) ...
... foon , " faid the father to him , furprized at his quick return . " You ordered me ( answered the fon ) to feek out a friend , and I can occafionally produce fifty , all patterns of true friendship . " 6 " Son , ( anfwered the merchant ) ...
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... foon recovering myself fo far as to en- quire whither we were going , and what was the cause of fuch clamour and confufion , I was told they were launching out into the ocean of life ; that we had already paffed the ftreights of infancy ...
... foon recovering myself fo far as to en- quire whither we were going , and what was the cause of fuch clamour and confufion , I was told they were launching out into the ocean of life ; that we had already paffed the ftreights of infancy ...
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... foon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the difpofal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indiffer- ence , or from wearinefs of their prefent condition ; for not one of thofe who thus rushed upon deftruc- tion ...
... foon forgot the rudder , and left himself again to the difpofal of chance . This negligence did not proceed from indiffer- ence , or from wearinefs of their prefent condition ; for not one of thofe who thus rushed upon deftruc- tion ...
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... foon by irreparable decay . In the midst of the current of life was the Gulph of Intemperance , a dreadful whirlpool , in- terfperfed with rocks , of which the pointed crags were concealed under water , and the tops covered with herbage ...
... foon by irreparable decay . In the midst of the current of life was the Gulph of Intemperance , a dreadful whirlpool , in- terfperfed with rocks , of which the pointed crags were concealed under water , and the tops covered with herbage ...
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