The Adventures of a Bank-note ...T. Davies, 1771 |
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... fhall call Mr. Derbyshire , though his real name is a monofyl- lable . With this Mr. Derbyshire did I pass many a merry hour ; his heart was as light as a feather , and the na- tural benevolence that furrounded it , kept it always ...
... fhall call Mr. Derbyshire , though his real name is a monofyl- lable . With this Mr. Derbyshire did I pass many a merry hour ; his heart was as light as a feather , and the na- tural benevolence that furrounded it , kept it always ...
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... naturally infer " I was not born ; and your inference " will prove juft and true . My fa- " ther , who , for the reft of the ftory , " I fhall call the ' fquire , for fhortness , Sin 6 " in imitation of the tenants , ( who " [ 36 ]
... naturally infer " I was not born ; and your inference " will prove juft and true . My fa- " ther , who , for the reft of the ftory , " I fhall call the ' fquire , for fhortness , Sin 6 " in imitation of the tenants , ( who " [ 36 ]
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... fhall make ; for my " beft thoughts always come , when I " am hard digging . " The ' fquire be- " ing pretty well convinced , that Teague muft have dug hard for eve- " ry thought in his fermon , except " that motion of standing ftill ...
... fhall make ; for my " beft thoughts always come , when I " am hard digging . " The ' fquire be- " ing pretty well convinced , that Teague muft have dug hard for eve- " ry thought in his fermon , except " that motion of standing ftill ...
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... fhall never know , because the ' fquire's delicacy would not let him afk the good man any questions about it , left it fhould look like putting him in mind of the fmall fum he had gi- ven him ; therefore , that matter , though a matter ...
... fhall never know , because the ' fquire's delicacy would not let him afk the good man any questions about it , left it fhould look like putting him in mind of the fmall fum he had gi- ven him ; therefore , that matter , though a matter ...
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... fhall not a fingle potatoe 66 grow in heaven , out of any of my , " fermons ; though I think it a most heavenly fruit . С " Just then , Mr. Derbyshire's car- " riage coming to the door , he fhook " the honeft Hibernian cordially by ...
... fhall not a fingle potatoe 66 grow in heaven , out of any of my , " fermons ; though I think it a most heavenly fruit . С " Just then , Mr. Derbyshire's car- " riage coming to the door , he fhook " the honeft Hibernian cordially by ...
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