Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... character and representation , " but prepared , as far as my humble abilities extend , to forward the objects of the Society , by hastening to accept its invitation for public con- tributions . Aware that the model of the French Academy ...
... character and representation , " but prepared , as far as my humble abilities extend , to forward the objects of the Society , by hastening to accept its invitation for public con- tributions . Aware that the model of the French Academy ...
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... character of their inhabitants , -a conformity to which those lovers of good cheer , the citizens , have not been all together inattentive , inasmuch as they have the Poultry , Fish - street - hill , Pudding - lane and Pie- corner ...
... character of their inhabitants , -a conformity to which those lovers of good cheer , the citizens , have not been all together inattentive , inasmuch as they have the Poultry , Fish - street - hill , Pudding - lane and Pie- corner ...
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... character should be termed a courtesan ; nor to morality , that she should be described as a woman of pleasure . Such lenient periphrases are of most injurious tendency ; and if the Society for the Suppression of Vice have failed to ...
... character should be termed a courtesan ; nor to morality , that she should be described as a woman of pleasure . Such lenient periphrases are of most injurious tendency ; and if the Society for the Suppression of Vice have failed to ...
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... character , number , and sequence ; whereas there is a marked difference in all these constituents among the various nations of the earth . The learned author of Hermes informs us , that to about twenty plain elementary sounds we owe ...
... character , number , and sequence ; whereas there is a marked difference in all these constituents among the various nations of the earth . The learned author of Hermes informs us , that to about twenty plain elementary sounds we owe ...
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... might have been expected from so polished and magnanimous a character , kept a special barber in his house ; and the same is recorded of Julius Cæsar , -- an evidence of refinement and good taste 36 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... might have been expected from so polished and magnanimous a character , kept a special barber in his house ; and the same is recorded of Julius Cæsar , -- an evidence of refinement and good taste 36 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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