The Adventures of a Bank-note ...T. Davies, 1771 |
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Page 13
... thing the world . " ever faw before , or perhaps ever " will again , is no more to be com- " pared to the captain's aftonished " phiz , than a two - penny lobfter to " a Greenland whale . " " The lady not daring to take her eyes off the ...
... thing the world . " ever faw before , or perhaps ever " will again , is no more to be com- " pared to the captain's aftonished " phiz , than a two - penny lobfter to " a Greenland whale . " " The lady not daring to take her eyes off the ...
Page 33
... thing of his own , in lieu of what he thinks Mr. Foote would have faid . If a reader can't please himself with his own thoughts , I am fure it would be out of my power to do it ; but , per contra , if he can please himself , he will be ...
... thing of his own , in lieu of what he thinks Mr. Foote would have faid . If a reader can't please himself with his own thoughts , I am fure it would be out of my power to do it ; but , per contra , if he can please himself , he will be ...
Page 45
... first year's fallary of five " c guineas , in advance ; judging two " things might have happened : the " first was , that althovgh this reve- " rend Paddy had rode poft on foot " from s from Chester ; yet expences , even " that [ 45 ]
... first year's fallary of five " c guineas , in advance ; judging two " things might have happened : the " first was , that althovgh this reve- " rend Paddy had rode poft on foot " from s from Chester ; yet expences , even " that [ 45 ]
Page 54
... thing elfe . " Indeed " I will not , my dear honey , " fays Teague ; " fince that is the cafe , " there 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 ...
... thing elfe . " Indeed " I will not , my dear honey , " fays Teague ; " fince that is the cafe , " there 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 ...
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... harmless a creature . Mr. Derbyshire's friend was great- ly pleased with the honeft parfon's downright artless manner of expref- fing himself , though there happened not not to be any thing brilliant enough in that afternoon's [ 59 ]
... harmless a creature . Mr. Derbyshire's friend was great- ly pleased with the honeft parfon's downright artless manner of expref- fing himself , though there happened not not to be any thing brilliant enough in that afternoon's [ 59 ]
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Page 131 - Tempjars ev'ry fentence raife} And wonder with a foolifh face of praife— Who but muft laugh,- if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What tho...
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