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“ We have seldom seen so much good sense , and still more rarely so much good humour , united with a greater abundance of charitable feeling and innocence of purpose . The style is remarkably forcible , chaste , and elegant .
“ We have seldom seen so much good sense , and still more rarely so much good humour , united with a greater abundance of charitable feeling and innocence of purpose . The style is remarkably forcible , chaste , and elegant .
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The descriptions are picturesque even to poetry --- we cannot but commend the beautiful and healthy spirit of that hest of morality , the morality grounded on religious feeling , which thoroughly pervades the se graceful pages .
The descriptions are picturesque even to poetry --- we cannot but commend the beautiful and healthy spirit of that hest of morality , the morality grounded on religious feeling , which thoroughly pervades the se graceful pages .
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But let us leave those sorrows , for behold , Just peeping through yon cloud , thy brightening spire , Old Nimeguen — ' would shame us to be told , That we should lack or feeling , force or fire , With thee in sight - Oh ! No ! thou ...
But let us leave those sorrows , for behold , Just peeping through yon cloud , thy brightening spire , Old Nimeguen — ' would shame us to be told , That we should lack or feeling , force or fire , With thee in sight - Oh ! No ! thou ...
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Kings are but men , with all their failings , feelings , And failings oft they haye - how should they not ? E'en Henry had his faults , but such his dealings , The Gauls surnam'd him Bon -- he's not forgot .
Kings are but men , with all their failings , feelings , And failings oft they haye - how should they not ? E'en Henry had his faults , but such his dealings , The Gauls surnam'd him Bon -- he's not forgot .
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In the honourable and patriotic feeling of all we place perfect confidence , however different may be the views taken of this exciting question , for we profess ourselves to be of no particular party ; nor can we comprehend how ...
In the honourable and patriotic feeling of all we place perfect confidence , however different may be the views taken of this exciting question , for we profess ourselves to be of no particular party ; nor can we comprehend how ...
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| Title | Fitz-Raymond; Or, The Rambler on the Rhine: A Metrico- Political Sketch of Past and Present Times |
| Author | Sir Whitelaw Ainslie |
| Publisher | A. Black, 1831 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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