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... Original Poems , Letters , Tales , Translations , Panegyricks , Epigrams , and Epitaphs . 66 " Sunt bona , sunt quædam mediocria , sunt mala plura ; Quæ legis hic aliter non fit , abite , liber . " - MARTIAL . Things good , things bad ...
... Original Poems , Letters , Tales , Translations , Panegyricks , Epigrams , and Epitaphs . 66 " Sunt bona , sunt quædam mediocria , sunt mala plura ; Quæ legis hic aliter non fit , abite , liber . " - MARTIAL . Things good , things bad ...
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... original sin was particularly excited by that particular fruit or not , so it was that a sub- traction was made enormous enough to make inquiry unavoidable ; the boxes were searched in consequence , and the whole plunder was thus ...
... original sin was particularly excited by that particular fruit or not , so it was that a sub- traction was made enormous enough to make inquiry unavoidable ; the boxes were searched in consequence , and the whole plunder was thus ...
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... original Portuguese . My favourite play upon the stage was " Cymbeline , " and next to that , " As you like it . " They are both romantic dramas ; and no one had ever a more decided turn for music or for numbers , than I had for romance ...
... original Portuguese . My favourite play upon the stage was " Cymbeline , " and next to that , " As you like it . " They are both romantic dramas ; and no one had ever a more decided turn for music or for numbers , than I had for romance ...
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... original must be in Hebrew . No one in my father's house could set me right upon this point ; but going one day with my mother into a shop , one side of which was fitted up with a circulating library , containing not more than three or ...
... original must be in Hebrew . No one in my father's house could set me right upon this point ; but going one day with my mother into a shop , one side of which was fitted up with a circulating library , containing not more than three or ...
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... original ; but the shopman , Mr. Cruett ( a most obliging man he was ) , immediately put the translation into my hand , and I do not think any accession of fortune could now give me so much delight as I then derived from that vile ...
... original ; but the shopman , Mr. Cruett ( a most obliging man he was ) , immediately put the translation into my hand , and I do not think any accession of fortune could now give me so much delight as I then derived from that vile ...
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