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Page 108
... practical at once . Know , then , O common - place mortal ! that the fates have not denied to your mad friends a tolerably comfortable house , or , rather ( I make the acknowledgment lest you should be tempted by my descriptions to ...
... practical at once . Know , then , O common - place mortal ! that the fates have not denied to your mad friends a tolerably comfortable house , or , rather ( I make the acknowledgment lest you should be tempted by my descriptions to ...
Page 113
... practical agricul- turist , though I may not relish his manners . But with ladies the case is different , and I shall never attempt to conform , in this par- ticular , to the customs of the country . When John and Sophy get their log ...
... practical agricul- turist , though I may not relish his manners . But with ladies the case is different , and I shall never attempt to conform , in this par- ticular , to the customs of the country . When John and Sophy get their log ...
Page 125
... practical good sense of this observa- tion twenty times a day , since we are dis- covering a thousand wants which have al- ways heretofore been so regularly and so easily supplied that we did not remember that they were wants . Florella ...
... practical good sense of this observa- tion twenty times a day , since we are dis- covering a thousand wants which have al- ways heretofore been so regularly and so easily supplied that we did not remember that they were wants . Florella ...
Page 175
... practical utility as the Americans should have made so prodigious a blunder as to this matter . They will em- brace the most odious , filthy , and debasing callings for the sake of making money ; yet the mere name of a difference in ...
... practical utility as the Americans should have made so prodigious a blunder as to this matter . They will em- brace the most odious , filthy , and debasing callings for the sake of making money ; yet the mere name of a difference in ...
Page 196
... practical bearing none the less . We had scarcely a mile yet to go when we encountered an apparition yet more appalling than a saw - log an im- mense herd of unruly cattle , driven by two or three men on horseback . No sooner did I ...
... practical bearing none the less . We had scarcely a mile yet to go when we encountered an apparition yet more appalling than a saw - log an im- mense herd of unruly cattle , driven by two or three men on horseback . No sooner did I ...
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