Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... equally favourable circumstances . His position , somehow or other , presents the same objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have ...
... equally favourable circumstances . His position , somehow or other , presents the same objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have ...
Page 12
... equally luxurious , how I account for their ancestors having built Rome and conquered the world . He is no genuine theorist who cannot annihilate both time and space to reconcile contradictions . But I am not driven to this necessity ...
... equally luxurious , how I account for their ancestors having built Rome and conquered the world . He is no genuine theorist who cannot annihilate both time and space to reconcile contradictions . But I am not driven to this necessity ...
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... equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark , medlars , and cardinal flowers . My importation of shoemakers was unfortunately too ...
... equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark , medlars , and cardinal flowers . My importation of shoemakers was unfortunately too ...
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... equally to be avoided . The Quakers have no more got rid of falsehood and bad grammar by the affectations of their phraseology , than they have conquered vanity by the elaborate plain- ness of their garb . As we cannot lift ourselves ...
... equally to be avoided . The Quakers have no more got rid of falsehood and bad grammar by the affectations of their phraseology , than they have conquered vanity by the elaborate plain- ness of their garb . As we cannot lift ourselves ...
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... equally ancient , the dis- tinction consists in possessing records to prove a cer- tain succession ; and even this , it appears , ceases to be a boast beyond a certain point . Fantastical vanity ! which , while it cannot deny to the ...
... equally ancient , the dis- tinction consists in possessing records to prove a cer- tain succession ; and even this , it appears , ceases to be a boast beyond a certain point . Fantastical vanity ! which , while it cannot deny to the ...
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