The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Volumes 15-181825 |
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... short , and the threescore - and- ten , or fourscore years of the Psalmist , generally " sum it up ; " but men pant anxiously to prolong the recol- lection of themselves , and to hand down to futurity some marks of their having once ...
... short , and the threescore - and- ten , or fourscore years of the Psalmist , generally " sum it up ; " but men pant anxiously to prolong the recol- lection of themselves , and to hand down to futurity some marks of their having once ...
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... short writ directed to the Sheriff , and after citation and appearance of the defen- dant in Court , the cause of action is explained by the plaintiff , in a de- claration . Anciently , a similar prac- tice existed in Scotland . In ...
... short writ directed to the Sheriff , and after citation and appearance of the defen- dant in Court , the cause of action is explained by the plaintiff , in a de- claration . Anciently , a similar prac- tice existed in Scotland . In ...
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... short time I be came considerably attached to him ; and the more so , because I found in him a considerable similarity of taste . At our leisure hours we read and talked about our favourite authors ; and though he had much less need of ...
... short time I be came considerably attached to him ; and the more so , because I found in him a considerable similarity of taste . At our leisure hours we read and talked about our favourite authors ; and though he had much less need of ...
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... short while before , would have reckoned it a high honour to have been per- mitted to appear in his presence . Still more uncertain are our schemes for promoting the happiness of our posterity ; the father starves himself , that his son ...
... short while before , would have reckoned it a high honour to have been per- mitted to appear in his presence . Still more uncertain are our schemes for promoting the happiness of our posterity ; the father starves himself , that his son ...
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... short dis- tance , the portals of which he ima gined would open at his approach . He now wrote a farce , which he pre- vailed on the manager to bring for- ward . The good folks of Greenock were not fastidious ; the pit clapped , and the ...
... short dis- tance , the portals of which he ima gined would open at his approach . He now wrote a farce , which he pre- vailed on the manager to bring for- ward . The good folks of Greenock were not fastidious ; the pit clapped , and the ...
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